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From: snow@china.uu.net (John Snow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Grappler info. needed
Summary: is it any good?
Message-ID: <150@salt.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 89 15:56:01 GMT
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Reply-To: snow@china.UUCP (John Snow)
Organization: MDCCIS, Englewood, CO
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Having just reciently entered the Mac world, I was delighted to
discover the existence of a device (the Grappler) that would let me
connect my Epson MX-80 printer to my Mac SE.  I talked to Orange Micro
and they led me to believe that the Grappler is an intelligent
hardware device that converts Imagewriter commands to Epson commands,
and gives marvelous results.  I question this somewhat because of the
DPI difference between the Epson and the Imagewriter.  So basically my
questions are:

- How well does the Grappler work (function and quality of print)?
- Would I be better off using a straight serial to parallel converter
(does anyone make one of these??) and a printer driver built for the
Epson (does anyone make one of THESE???)?

Any information, suggestions, recomendations will be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
	John Snow-- 
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