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From: guss@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Jim Gussler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ImageWriter Emulator
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.075605.6499@crash.cts.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 07:56:05 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from sysadmin@pnet91.cts.com
Subject: ImageWriter Emulator

>Couple of LaserWriter/LaserPrinter questions...

>1) How compatible is the IIp w/ AppleTalk option & w/ PostScript option to
>the Apple IIgs laser printer drivers?

I'm currently running a //gs Rom 3 with slot 1 set up as AppleTalk.  I've got
a phone net connector on the back of my gs that has a connector that runs to
my ImageWriter phone net connector and from there to my Hewlett Packard
LaserJet IIp (w PostScript).  I have found only one program that burps with
this hookup and that is PublishIt 3.  (But PublishIt 3 doesn't have a driver
for the HP IIp, I use the driver for the LaserWriter Plus.)  All other
programs I've tried, work fine.

>2) Will the ImageWriter Emulator work on the IIp (as above)?

Yes.  When you select the Emulator the printer firsts prints out a piece of
paper saying Emulator installed (just to let you know it's working) and then
its ready.  I normally use AppleWorks 3.0 and when I print, I use the
standard ImageWriter commands such as Bold, Subscript, underline, etc, and
they work like a champ.

>With 5.0.2, (on a floppy disk system), can 512k support the downloading of
>the IWEM and then allow a P8 program to print correctly.

Couldn't tell you.  I already had 5.0.3 installed before the purchase of the
HP LaserJet IIp.

>I'm usually up on this stuff, but some of these things don't have concrete
>answers!

Does any of this stuff have concrete answers? :-)

guss


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