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From: jose@calvin.ee.cornell.edu (Jose M. Rosado Roman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Help needed with HP-Deskwriter & Localtalk
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.005742.5236@calvin.ee.cornell.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 91 00:57:42 GMT
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In article <3592@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de> aes19@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de ( aes19) writes:
>Hi there.
>Can anyone tell me how to connect an Deskwriter to appletalk ? Because
>this printer is the only device on the net i won't buy the appletalk-
>kits. I need this only for work with System 7 and virtual memory on an
>SE/30. The serial driver for the Deskjet won't work work in this confi-
>guration ( and i've heared that the appletalk driver does ). 
>Thanks in advance
>	Andy

I had to use appletalk connectors (eg. phone net connectors) because
the DW only does serial on a serial line.  Connecting it via the
appletalk phone connectors let's you choose between serial and appletalk
modes.  I am currently running Sys7.0 on a Mac+ and have a DW connected
via appletalk.  Works nice with the drivers that came with the DW.

While I'm at it, the true type fonts are nice to use with the DW because
I don't have much room for too many bitmapped fonts and the price for the
extra fonts package from HP is a bit steep for a wee grad student.

I have ftped some true type fonts from sumex but although they are nice
(thanks for posting!) I would like to know if it is possible to get the
fonts with accented characters.  There is a world out there that
unfortunately likes to read text with accented words, eg. spanish, french.
Any clues out there?  Will fontographer, et al, work on TT fonts??

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