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From: jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: APPLE Imagewriter on ST??
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.192425.14112@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 19:24:25 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.155924.28155@santra.uucp> s37837k@saha.hut.fi (Jari Lehto) writes:
>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.

The Imagewriter does NOT need to print everything as a bit-image, though it
obviously can, nor does that have anything to do with whether the interface
is serial or Centronics parallel.  The Imagewriter II will print ASCII text
quite easily, in either draft or NLQ mode, and optionally in color.  No need
for "dots" or "very special" drivers, just a regular driver.

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