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From: stevew@karau.UUCP (Steven M. Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Hooking up a Laserwriter to a PC or a 3B2?
Message-ID: <470@karau.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Apr-87 12:42:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: karau.470
Posted: Sun Apr 26 12:42:33 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 27-Apr-87 00:04:24 EDT
References: <199@houxj.UUCP> <151@hubcap.UUCP> <1943@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Organization: Karau Assoc. Inc., Hopkins MN
Lines: 24
Summary: Laserwriter also has Diablo emultation
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.ibm.pc:3575 comp.sys.apple:1200 comp.sys.att:370

In article <1943@ihuxy.ATT.COM<, vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (gopal) writes:
< In article <151@hubcap.UUCP<, mbrown@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Brown) writes:
< < I am not sure about the hardware to hook up a Laserwriter (I think that
< < it is an RS232 interface), but the Laserwriter is driven by postscript,
< < i.e. the final driver to produce the pixel pattern is a set of ROM
< < postscript routines.  This means that you either need to be running
< < postscript, or have a program that will translate the output from your
< < text processor to postscript.  I will be posting a summary of what is
< < available to do this in comp.text next week.
< 
< The Laserwriter DOES have an RS-232 port (along with an AppleTalk port or
< some such thing). We run ours at 9600 baud. The printer uses xon/xoff flow
< control.
< 

The LaserWriter also has a Diable emulation mode that is enabled by setting
the switch to "SPECIAL".  This will allow it to do several different print
effects with control characters.  Then you can just send it the actual text
files if you are willing to settle for Courier font only.

We are running a modified verison of lpscript which watchs for a subset of the
Epson FX-80 control set for special effects as well as some extra font control.

Steven Wilcoxon            stevew@karau          Karau Assoc. Inc