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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: ImageWriter II to PC
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Date: 18 Aug 90 19:14:12 GMT
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"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.
"
"Eric, tinkerer-at-large

Don't ask me why, but my first computer was a PC AT and the printer I bought
was an ImageWriter II. (First time computer buyers do strange things, thanks
to the help we get from dealers.)

Orange Micro makes (made at the time) a card to go inside the ImageWriter.
It comes with a manual telling you how to set the switches and then emulates
an Epson (FX-80?). 

It worked OK, mostly. No italics and one or two other minor problems. But
it worked out much better when I bought a Mac and sold the AT.

I doubt if just a cable by itself will do it.

Shirley Kehr