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Subject: Re: Hooking up a Laserwriter to a PC or a 3B2?
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Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 16:55:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 23 16:55:31 1987
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Keywords: Laserwriter, Diablo emulation
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Summary: LaserWriter can also emulate Diablo 630

In article <151@hubcap.UUCP> mbrown@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Brown) writes:
>......  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.  

The Laserwriter also has a special mode which emulates a Diablo 630 with a
Courier-10 pitch daisy wheel.  Not too fancy, but it works.  This is the
quickest way to hook up a Laserwriter to an RS-232 interface.

One can also run a short PostScript program which will change the default
font.  I've never done this; see Adobe Systems' Postscript Ref. Manual for
details.
 
Al Stangenberger
Forestry
U.C. Berkeley