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From: sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Using NON-Mac printer with Mac IIx?
Message-ID: <1149@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 90 15:10:40 GMT
Reply-To: sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland)
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	We have a Mac IIx at work with some additional hardware for
creating nice 3D chemical structures with rich colors.  We do NOT 
have a printer for it.  It would be nice to have some color prints
or transparencies for talks.  I have an Okimate 20 wax transfer
printer which will do the job nicely (good color reproduction and
saturation, makes transparencies), but it has a parallel (25-pin)
IBM style interface.  I want to hook this up to the Mac IIx and 
I want to know how this is done.  The manuals I have mention that
the Mac printer port is serial and that only printers such as the
Imagewriter or LaserJet will work easily.  

How can I hook up the Okimate 20 to this Mac IIx???  

PLEASE EMAIL ALL RESPONSES SINCE I DO NOT READ THIS NEWSGROUP ON
A REGULAR BASIS.

Thanks,

Scott Sutherland
sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu