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From: s37837k@saha.hut.fi (Jari Lehto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: APPLE Imagewriter on ST??
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.155924.28155@santra.uucp>
Date: 10 Apr 91 15:59:24 GMT
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In article <1991Apr9.130629.29558@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> shawl@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>Has anyone ever tried to hook an Apple Imagewriter up to an ST?
>Any thoughts on doing it would be appreciated.
>

You know, Mac is very "dot-oriented", so you would need to make/get aspecial
driver for it. And it would also reserve the serial port, so no modem...
This is because ImageWriter prints everything as a bit-image and mac does not
have an actual centronics-port, both printer and modem ports are serials.
So you can print pictures quite easily, but text does need a very special
driver.

				Jartsu

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