Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!gnh-starport.cts.com!whitewolf From: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: GRAPPLER C/MAC/GS COMPATIBILITY PROBLEM Message-ID: Date: 27 May 91 02:42:50 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The Internet Lines: 32 X-Unparsable-Date: Sat May 25 91 at 09:55:09 (EDT) |In article <53072@apple.Apple.COM>, mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes: |> [Long question about the Grappler C/MAC/GS deleted] |> |> Yes, it's true the Grappleer C/MAC/GS (the serial device that translates |> ImageWriter II codes to codes for other printers) doesn't work with the new |> 5.0.3+ ImageWriter II driver. | |> Orange Micro knew about the problem but did not say if they intended to do |> anything about it, since the 5.0.2 drivers work with their product and |> upgrade | |> costs are still pretty high for such a product. | |This isn't completely true. Unless it is just due to the fact that |I don't have a new revision of Grappler C/Mac/GS, the Grappler doesn't |emulate the ImageWriter II in "best text" mode for any of the programs |or drivers that I have tried. I wrote to Orange Micro 3 years ago about |this and was told by their technical department that this problem |would be corrected after their Grappler LQ was done. Apparently, this |never happened. | |Rocky Giovinazzo There's another prroduct on the market from Xetex, SuperWriter 924, inexpensive which does the same thing as the Grappler, and it works perfectly with the new drivers in 5.0x. I have one and it works great. Better than getting an IW XX, and less expensive... I'm planning on getting a 24-pin. Oh, it does support 9 AND 24-pin. A good product at a decent price. INET: whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com UUCP: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf ARPA: crash!gnh-starport!whitewolf@nosc.mil