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From: catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
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Subject: Re: Hooking up a Laserwriter to a PC or a 3B2?
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Date: Mon, 4-May-87 12:55:11 EDT
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In article <6064@dartvax.UUCP> merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) writes:
>The LaserWriter also emulates a Diablo 630.  What I do (and I'm sure there's
>a better way) is to dump the following postscript commands to the LaserWriter:
>   serverdict begin 0 exitserver
>   statusdict begin
>   58 0 seteescratch
>And then it thinks it's a Diablo 630.

  Really all you need to do is set the baud rate selector in back to
Special (the other options are 1200, 9600, and AppleTalk).  This puts
the LaserWriter into Diablo emulation (I believe at 9600 baud) mode
without changing the default settings; useful, since these settings
can only be reprogrammed about 300,000 times before chip replacement
is necessary.

  Note that the Diablo emulation font is not very nice.  Much better
output is achieved from PostScript knowledgable programs.  My vote
goes to FinalWord II by Mark of the Unicorn as being the nicest
word processing package to use.  Details available upon request.

					- Tony
					  catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu
					  catone@wharton.upenn.edu