taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) (11/11/90)
Does anyone know why the "Color" option on the new driver with 5.0.3 is disabled? It doesn't matter whether I'm in Platinum Paint or AWGS or GraphicWriter or whatever. I can only print in black and white. Don't tell me Apple has found some way to tell if I have a colour ribbon in the ImageWriter! Time to do some hacking... \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ | Brian T. Tao | UUCP: torag!pnet91!taob | / \ | University of Toronto | INET: taob@pnet91.cts.com | \ The Apple II / | Scarberia, ON | taob@pro-micol.cts.com | / Lives On!! \ |:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::| \ / | "Computer guru? Someone who got their computer a | /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ | couple of weeks before you did." (Alvin Toffler) |
6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao) (11/12/90)
You got it. The driver senses whether a color ribbon is installed or not and acts accordingly.
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (11/12/90)
In article <151@generic.UUCP> taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes: > > Does anyone know why the "Color" option on the new driver with 5.0.3 is >disabled? It doesn't matter whether I'm in Platinum Paint or AWGS or >GraphicWriter or whatever. I can only print in black and white. Don't tell >me Apple has found some way to tell if I have a colour ribbon in the >ImageWriter! Time to do some hacking... Of course there is a way of checking for a color ribbon in an Imagewriter II-- and the ImageWriter I didn't support multi-colored ribbons. (if you have a non-standard color ribbon, just tape down the microswitch in the center of the ribbon area on the printer) -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.
THROOP@GRIN1.BITNET ("Throop,Henry B") (11/12/90)
Brian T. Tao writes: > [color option in IW driver disabled]... Don't tell me Apple has found some > way to tell if I have a colour ribbon in the ImageWriter! The ability to detect which type of ribbon has been built in to the IWII since it was introduced. There's a little hole on the bottom of the color ribbon that is not present on the black ribbon, which the printer can detect. There is a control code you can send to the printer to let your program know which ribbon is installed. -- Henry Throop THROOP@GRIN1.BITNET throoph@jacobs.cs.orst.edu
jeff@pro-avalon.cts.com (Jeff Jungblut) (11/12/90)
In-Reply-To: message from taob@pnet91.cts.com > Does anyone know why the "Color" option on the new driver with 5.0.3 is > disabled? It doesn't matter whether I'm in Platinum Paint or AWGS or > GraphicWriter or whatever. I can only print in black and white. Don't tell > me Apple has found some way to tell if I have a colour ribbon in the > ImageWriter! Time to do some hacking... That's what they've done. The Color selection is disabled unless a color ribbon is installed in the ImageWriter. -- jeff@pro-avalon UUCP: crash!pro-avalon!jeff ARPA: crash!pro-avalon!jeff@nosc.mil INET: jeff@pro-avalon.cts.com
taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) (11/12/90)
From 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao): > You got it. The driver senses whether a color > ribbon is installed or not and acts accordingly. No kidding!!! I just made a wild guess... hey, that's pretty nifty! I thought it was a bug at first (maybe to keep us on the hook for 4.1) since I didn't think you could tell what kind of ribbon was in the printer from software. With that cleared up, I'm going to stick in a blue-ink ribbon and see if the menu changes to from "Black and White" to "Blue and White"... ;-) \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ | Brian T. Tao | UUCP: torag!pnet91!taob | / \ | University of Toronto | INET: taob@pnet91.cts.com | \ The Apple II / | Scarberia, ON | taob@pro-micol.cts.com | / Lives On!! \ |:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::| \ / | "Computer guru? Someone who got their computer a | /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ | couple of weeks before you did." (Alvin Toffler) |
jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman) (11/13/90)
Yes, actually, there is a way to tell if you have a color ribbon in your
IW2. The printer knows; see the microswitch in the middle of the ribbon
holder? That tells the printer you have a color ribbon. And the
printer reports this to the computer as a part of its status code, which
I believe is returned by issuing ESC-? to the printer.
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>> Apple // Forever!!! <<taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) (11/13/90)
Gee, do I ever feel dumb now... I really never knew you could tell which ribbon was in the ImageWriter II! Why wasn't that feature ever implemented before? I accidentally printed out a colour Print Shop GS sign once with a black ribbon (with naturally horrible results). It would have been nice if it notified me to insert the rainbow ribbon. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ | Brian T. Tao | UUCP: torag!pnet91!taob | / \ | University of Toronto | INET: taob@pnet91.cts.com | \ The Apple II / | Scarberia, ON | taob@pro-micol.cts.com | / Lives On!! \ |:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::| \ / | "Computer guru? Someone who got their computer a | /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ | couple of weeks before you did." (Alvin Toffler) |
PYC121@URIACC.URI.EDU (Andy Kress) (11/14/90)
The driver knows whether or not you have a color ribbon in your printer.
It knows this by seeing if the little switch under where the ribbon goes
is depressed or not. I thought the same thing you did and then poped the ol
color ribbon in and all is well in the universe.
Andy Kress
PYC121 at URIACC
Apple II: The power to take over the world!bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brendan Gallagher Hoar) (11/14/90)
Actually, from what I've heard, yeah, IW 4.0 CAN detect the color ribbon. Replies to gt0t@andrew.cmu.edu, cause he told me so. foo. Brendan G. Hoar bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon, Inc.