Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!pacbell.com!att!ucbvax!UALR.BITNET!RXBROWN From: RXBROWN@UALR.BITNET ("MR.FANTASTIC") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: StyleWriter printer Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 16:09:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 >I saw an ad for the new StyleWriter in the Daily Nebraskan, a campus >publication, and went to take a look at it. Its a page feed printer, >very small footprint, and costs just a little more than an ImageWriter II. >I am tempted to get it, but I am wondering about compatibility with an >Apple IIgs. How would it handle an ASCII printout? Does it need anything >special to function? The print quality is laser-like, and looks great. >But most of my hard copies are sent from ProDOS 8 applications. Would I >get any better results from the use of this printer? > >-- >/// ____ \\\ "It says, `Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B, Hold 7, Telephone >| |/ / \ \| | Sanitizer, Second Class,' and a serial number." "A telephone > \\_(\____/)_// sanitizer? A dead telephone sanitizer?" "Best >greg \_\\\/ hoss.unl.edu kind." "But what's he doing here?" "Not a lot." The StyleWriter in not bad, as far as cost, but there are a couple of other problems with it when you are talking about using it with you Apple II. Frist it won't work with the // line simply because it uses TrueType fonts. Right now it only has four fonts, but that can be changed if you convert Post- script fonts to TrueType (there is a program out there that will do this). What would be cool, is Apple implementing that technology into the // line if they can. I would think they could at least implement it into the GS. Robert p.s. I can't remember the exact price, but I think the StyleWriter costs about $599. ******************************************************************************** Real: Robert Brown * Profanity is the one language all Academic Computing Services Lab Manager * programmers know best. Bitnet: RXBROWN@UALR * I speak for me, myself, and I!! AOL: ROBPHD * Tires and tax not included,void where Apple //GS the power to be your best. * prohibited. Member FDIC.............. ********************************************************************************