Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:34466 comp.sys.apple:16369
Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!attctc!wnp
From: wnp@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: IBM-PC TO IMAGEWRITER II
Message-ID: <9314@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 10 Sep 89 13:11:50 GMT
References: <3889@houligan.UUCP> <34617@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: wnp@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
Lines: 33

In article <34617@apple.Apple.COM> rewing@Apple.COM (Richard Ewing) writes:
 >In theory, you should be able to use an Imagewriter II with an IBM PC.
 >You'll need a din-8 -> DB-25 serial cable (ask an Apple dealer for an
 >Apple //e printer cable), which will connect directly to your favorite
 >COM port.

You will also need a gender changer at the DB-25 end, since the Apple //e
serial cards have a female connector, and the //e printer cable thus has
a male DB-25 rather than the female required for the IBM-PC.

 >Then tell your IBM programs that they will be printing
 >to a C.Itoh ProWriter (or ProWriter II).  The Imagewriter is firmware
 >compatible with this printer since the days of the original Apple
 >Dot Matrix Printer (really a ProWriter).

Only to a certain extent. The Imagewriter does not provide the Japanese 
characters provided by the NEC 8023/C.Itoh Prowriter, and the format for
downloading characters is not the same.

But in principle this printer should indeed work fine with the PC --
in my opinion it is a much better printer than any of the Epson-compatibles
out there, especially when it comes to graphics. There is no comparison 
between the output of, as an example, Printshop, on an Imagewriter, and
even a 24-pin Epson compatible.

Wolf Paul
(long an Apple // fan until Apple's pricing policies
 drove me into the arms of the PC-Clone makers)
-- 
Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101
UUCP:   {texbell, attctc, dalsqnt}!dcs!wnp
DOMAIN: wnp@attctc.dallas.tx.us or wnp%dcs@texbell.swbt.com
        NOTICE: As of July 3, 1989, "killer" has become "attctc".