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From: rcfische@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Raymond C. Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Typewriter Emulation Software for the Mac?
Message-ID: <25b3ec78.6cbb@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 17 Jan 90 03:54:32 GMT
References: <462@sierra.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: rcfische@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Raymond C. Fischer)
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In article <462@sierra.stanford.edu> siegman@sierra.UUCP (Anthony E. Siegman) writes:
>Does anyone know of software which will make the combination of a Mac
>and an Imagewriter I or II act like an old-fashioned electronic
>typewriter -- that is, when you hit a key the Imagewriter just types
>the corresponding letter right where the print head happens to be.
>(Arrow keys might make the paper move up/down/left/right just like the
>platen on a typewriter.)
>
>Internet:  siegman@sierra.stanford.edu
>Bitnet:    rw.aap@forsythe

I don't beleive this is possible.  Not that the software would be especially
difficult to write; it probably would take only a day or two.  The problem
is that the ImageWriter (like most dot-matrix printers) does not print 
characters one at a time.  It collects an entire line of text then prints
it all at once.  Thus, characters are a uniform size and evenly spaced.

Ray Fischer
rcfische@polyslo.calpoly.edu