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From: alfter@uns-helios.nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER)
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Subject: Re: ImageWriter printer to IBM
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Date: 27 Nov 90 00:11:32 GMT
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All you should need to do is dig up a cable somewhere that has the
right connectors: a DB-25 for your Imagewriter (or mini-DIN-8 for an
Imagewriter II) and whatever your friend's MeSsy-DOS box takes
(probably a DB-25).  Once that's done, set the dipswitches in the
printer for 9600 baud and set the serial port in the MeSsy-DOS box to
9600 baud (however you do that).  You'll probably also want to set 8
data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity, and hardware (DTR/DSR) handshaking
instead of software (XON/XOFF) handshaking.

A couple of comments on using an Imagewriter with MeSsy-DOS, though:

1) I doubt that MeSsy-DOS software knows what an Apple Imagewriter is.
2) High ASCII characters will be unprintable since the Imagewriter
   normally only uses low ASCII characters.  (High ASCII characters,
   which MeSsy-DOS uses for graphics characters, will probably print
   as their low-ASCII equivalents.)

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