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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Imagewriter II cable to PC
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Date: 15 Aug 90 14:05:44 GMT
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In article <12570@hydra.gatech.EDU> ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) writes:
>
>I'm stuck.  I've tried many times to build the right cable for the Imagewriter
>II printer, so that it may be used with a PC.  I am able to communicate with
>it directly (via communications program), but it won't function correctly as a
>printer.  Does anyone know the proper cable configuration to make this work?
>One more detail:  I am able to send characters to the printer, but they do not
>appear until I hit the Enter key. 

What exactly is the problem?  Sending chars to the printer and not having them
appear until you hit enter is normal-- that's the way the Imagewriter II
works.  If the problem is that it prints, then loses some characters and
starts printing garbage, the problem is that you need to make a hardware
handshake cable.  
My guess would be that you would connect pin 2 of the Imagewriter end to pin
4 of the PC (DB25 I assume) end if the PC has a DCE configured port.  If the
port is configured as a DTE, try connecting Pin 2 to Pin 5 or to pin 20.
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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