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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ImageWriter 4.0 drivers
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Date: 11 Nov 90 20:17:10 GMT
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In article <151@generic.UUCP> taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:
>
>    Does anyone know why the "Color" option on the new driver with 5.0.3 is
>disabled?  It doesn't matter whether I'm in Platinum Paint or AWGS or
>GraphicWriter or whatever.  I can only print in black and white.  Don't tell
>me Apple has found some way to tell if I have a colour ribbon in the
>ImageWriter!  Time to do some hacking...

Of course there is a way of checking for a color ribbon in an Imagewriter II--
and the ImageWriter I didn't support multi-colored ribbons.
(if you have a non-standard color ribbon, just tape down the microswitch in the
center of the ribbon area on the printer)
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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