crew@pro-harvest.cts.com (Chris Wicklein) (06/25/90)
Well, Joe... the best way to go from a //e --> Mac is to sell the //e to someone who can use it, then buy a Mac through a U. If you are asking about an upgrade policy or anything of that nature, I doubt there is one. The Apple //e is (I think) fully able to use many laser printers, from Apple (LaserWriter), and HP (LaserJets). There is however a lack of s-ware and drivers. There are some DTP packages for the //e, including geoPublish, Publish It!, and Springboard Publisher. My favorite way to connect to Internet is by calling pro-harvest (ProLine BBS) on my Apple //e using a 1200 baud modem and Softerm 2 (this is however my only means). You might be a candidate for upgrading to a IIgs. There is rumored a driver for the HP PaintJet. The GS has graphics near that of Mac II, with only some loss of resoultion (but a big loss of cost). The GS runs all the above DTP packages, and at least 3 more. ARPA: crash!pro-harvest!crew@nosc.mil INET: crew@pro-harvest.cts.com BITNET: crew%pro-harvest.cts.com UUCP: crash!pro-harvest!crew "This message is strictly fact or my opinion."
lbotez@pro-sol.cts.com (Lynda Botez) (07/02/90)
In-Reply-To: message from crew@pro-harvest.cts.com >You might be a candidate for upgradign to a IIgs. There is rumored a driver >for the HP PaintJet. The GS has graphics near that of Mac II, with only some >loss of resolution (but a big loss of cost). Well, here's the latest on the state of the HP printer drivers. I've seen the output on the HP Deskjet printer, and I'm very impressed. The drivers are being written by Bill Heineman (resident Apple II Santa Claus) for Seven Hills Software, the publishers of Graphicwriter III. You see, they want their program to be THE desktop publishing program for the Apple IIGS. The drivers are almost completed, and are being beta tested now. This is not Vaporware, but for real. After the Deskjet driver is completed, the HP Paintjet driver will be next. Apparantly, the Deskjet driver will work on the HP Laserwriters too. Then some Epson drivers are supposedly in the works. Bill is creating these drivers to give more capability to the Apple II. Believe me, he isn't fond of doing printer drivers (he'd rather write games), but he feels it's a major stumbling block that the Apple IIGS seems to be limited to the Imagewriter II. Thank heavens there are people like Bill around... Lynda
philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) (07/02/90)
In article <3373@crash.cts.com> lbotez@pro-sol.cts.com (Lynda Botez) writes: >Well, here's the latest on the state of the HP printer drivers. I've seen the >output on the HP Deskjet printer, and I'm very impressed. > >The drivers are being written by Bill Heineman (resident Apple II Santa Claus) >for Seven Hills Software, the publishers of Graphicwriter III. You see, they >want their program to be THE desktop publishing program for the Apple IIGS. This is extremely good news, especially the Paintjet driver[mentioned in Lynda's article]. The Laserjet's,DeskWriter, and the PaintjetXL(I think that's the name) now have Appletalk interfaces available. Do you know if the drivers are meant to work over a network? The Deskjet has only a serial(and parallel) interface as does the Paintjet. The DeskWriter uses a subset of the PCL HP printing language( sorry meant Deskjet+) so any driver should work but it would most likely demand a direct connection. Hope that's not the case! Philip McDunnough University of Toronto [my opinions] philip@utstat.toronto.edu