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From: THROOP@GRIN1.BITNET ("Throop,Henry B")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ImageWriter 4.0 drivers
Message-ID: <9011112155.AA26106@apple.com>
Date: 11 Nov 90 21:52:16 GMT
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Brian T. Tao writes:
> [color option in IW driver disabled]... Don't tell me Apple has found some
> way to tell if I have a colour ribbon in the ImageWriter!

The ability to detect which type of ribbon has been built in to the IWII
since it was introduced.  There's a little hole on the bottom of the color
ribbon that is not present on the black ribbon, which the printer can detect.
There is a control code you can send to the printer to let your program
know which ribbon is installed.

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Henry Throop
THROOP@GRIN1.BITNET
throoph@jacobs.cs.orst.edu