sead142@ut-emx.uucp (Larry Smith) (01/06/91)
a new printer if I can get away with using my old one, a NEC PC-8023A-C. I have a brouchure from Orange Micro describing their Grappler 9-Pin parallel printer adaptor cable that is supposed to transparently translate Imagewriter II commands into commands that other 9-pin printers can understand. I would like to hear from anyone who has such a set up. Are you pleased with it? Is the print quality as good as an imagewriter? Is the speed degraded? Thanks in advance, Larry Smith bitnet: LARRY@UTAPHY internet: sead142@emx.utexas.edu
robertw@informix.com (Rob Weinberg) (01/10/91)
In article <42165@ut-emx.uucp> sead142@ut-emx.uucp (Larry Smith) writes: >I have a brouchure from Orange Micro describing their Grappler 9-Pin >parallel printer adaptor cable that is supposed to transparently >translate Imagewriter II commands into commands that other 9-pin >printers can understand. I would like to hear from anyone who has >such a set up. Are you pleased with it? Is the print quality as >good as an imagewriter? Is the speed degraded? > I had one for a year - until I was able to acquire a LaserWriter. The Grappler does a quite fair job of imitating an ImageWriter - a good way to avoid buying an ImageWriter and saving some $$$$. BUT - it is SLOW. Set up a page of text to print at best quality, then go and watch a TV show while it prints. But with the cost of PostScript laser printers falling, it made sense to me to skip buying an ImageWriter and get by on the Grappler until I could afford a PostScript laser printer. When I had to generate a lot of letters one week, I just rented an ImageWriter to save hours of output time.