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From: zben@umd5.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Using a non-ImageWriter printer with a Mac (How's it done?)
Message-ID: <1540@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: Wed, 15-Apr-87 17:04:36 EST
Article-I.D.: umd5.1540
Posted: Wed Apr 15 17:04:36 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 17-Apr-87 06:25:34 EST
References: <1999@k.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
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Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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Summary: One experience

One of our people has an ancient Apple printer he bought with his Apple ][+.
It has a parallel Centronix interface.  He bought a serial to parallel box
and I built a cable to connect it.  Once the printer was physically connected
the only thing I had to do was give him the very latest copy of the printer
driver resource from the system file.

Before I gave him the latest printing resource the problem looked very much
like handshaking - it would work fine on short printouts or at the beginning
of long ones, but a ways into a long print job it would start to garbage out.
The new resource may believe in XON-XOFF handshake as well as the standard
DTR (what Apple calls "hardware handshake").
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