Subject: Re: Imagewriter
From: SFalken (sfalken@citlink.net)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 22:34:15 MDT
Actually, I was looking for help with an IMAGEwriter II, you know, the noisy,
slow, old 9-pin Dot-matrix printers that have been around since the MacPlus?
But in any case, I do have a Stylewriter 1200, and with the exception of the
case, it's basically the same printer as a SW2, so what you've sent will help
with that one.
--SF
n Thursday 18 October 2001 09:56, you wrote:
> >Hey there folks, got a question, anybody had any luck setting up an
> >Imagewriter II as a line printer? if I cat filename > /dev/ttyS1, it
> >prints jibberish, so the interface is obviously working, but I have NO
> > idea how to get it to do anything else, printtool doesn't do a bloody
> > thing, and neither does pdq. I'd really appreciate the help.
>
> Hopefully you have a machine with the old style DIN8 mac serial ports (I
> suspect you do or you wouldn't be asking about using the SW2).
>
> I have attached Monroe Williams' file on how to set this up. I was going to
> give you the link, but appears not to exist any longer :( . I also will
> include my printcap file as later versions of lpr ask you to replace one of
> the older commands present in the printcap that comes with Monroe's stuff.
>
> I have the SW2 up and running famously here on my ANS 700 with YDL 2.0.
>
> If you have questions, I'd be glad to try and help answering them.
>
> HTH.
>
> Pat
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