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From: consp11@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (consp11)
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Subject: Re: Amiga to Imagewriter Help
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Date: 10 Sep 89 20:55:22 GMT
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In article <6295@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> tknight@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (T.Knight - Computing Services) writes:
>In article <10260019@eecs.nwu.edu>, grassm@eecs.nwu.edu (Mark O. Grasse) writes:
>> 
>>    I need help with a printer set-up for my Amiga 2000.
>> 
>>    I have access to an Apple Imagewriter printer and no documentation for it.
>>    I need to know:
>>       a.  what type of cable do I need.  Are they hard to find?
>>       b.  Do I connect to the serial or parallel port?
>>       c.  Is this printer Postscript capable?
>> 
>>    I have the 1.3 printer driver for it.  Is there any other info anyone
>> has on set-up or tips?
>     I'd like to know myself if you can run an Imagewriter from the
>Amiga. Our dealer up here says if its made by apple it won't work with 
>the Amiga. Anyone in netland know if this is true?

I know for a fact that you can connect an ImageWriter II to the Amiga; I
did it myself for a while before I could afford a printer.  You need a
cable with a Macintosh-style mini-DIN configuration to a 25-pin parallel
or serial connector (either way works).  You can order them from Redmond
Cable, but I don't remember their address.  Mine cost me about $15-$20.
Good luck to you.

(Oh, yeah - the printing quality sucks.  Sorry, but it's a fact of non-
scalable fonts.)

--Brett Kessler