Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!daveb
From: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ImagewriterII help needed
Message-ID: <3237@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 88 14:21:22 GMT
References: <5349@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <5349@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> horton@home.PRC.Unisys.COM (Michael Horton) writes:
>
>I would like to hear from people with experience hooking up an
>ImagewriterII to an Amiga 1000.  I'm considering buying one for my 1000, but
>had no luck when I tried to connect a borrowed ImagewriterII using the Apple's
>"ImagewriterII-to-Apple IIe serial card" cable; that is, I made a few attempts
>to print (from the CLI and from a few programs with print options), but
>couldn't get any reaction at all from the printer.  (NOTE:  The ImagewriterII
>DIP switches were all set to their "factory default" settings.)
>
>If you have had success in using this printer, please tell me:
>1) where you got the printer cable from, and was it off-the-shelf or
>was it made to order?
>2) what preference settings did you use?
>3) are you happy with the printer?
>4) do you also use a modem, and if so, how do you share the serial port
>between the modem and printer?
>
>Please send your responses to me directly at my email address noted below.
>(Anyone else interested in the same information can contact me in a while, and
>I'll forward any responses on to you.)
>
>Thank you.
>
>Michael Horton
>{sdcrdcf,cbmvax,psuvax1}!burdvax!horton or horton@prc.unisys.com


	We have an Apple Imagewriter II working with an Amiga here at CBM.
We obtained the cable from:

	Redmond Cable
	17371-A1 NE 67th
	Redmond, WA.  98052
	206 882-2009

	It works like a charm.

	Disclaimer:  This is not a plug for Redmond Cable.  I'm just passing
	the info on that you requested.