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From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: APPLE Imagewriter on ST??
Message-ID: <4792.28035302@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 23:01:38 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.130629.29558@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1991Apr10.155924.28155@santra.uucp>
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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.

But it does have an ASCII mode, so any text based word processor would be 
able to use it. (But unless it has a printer driver for an Imagewriter, it 
won't be able to bold, underline, etc.)

But you still would need some printer driver to do any screen-dumps, and 
any graphic oriented prg will need a printer driver.

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