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From: flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac/Grappler/Printer Question
Keywords: printers, compatibility
Message-ID: <19461@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Date: 11 Jan 89 06:17:04 GMT
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In article <199@unet.UUCP> aschool@unet.PacBell.COM (Adam Schoolsky) writes:
>In article <19318@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> flowers@cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers) writes:
>>>With which printer is the Grappler compatible?
>>Contact the company and ask them.  When I did, they were pretty frank ...
>The grappler folks (Orange Micro) claim their device is *comaptible* with all
>epson *FX* or *MX* compatible printers.

There are different degrees of compatibility.  I've used it with two
supposedly epson FX compatible printers, and each had idiosyncracies
that required different dip switch settings on the Grapper.  It saved
me time to just get the optimal settings from Orange Micro itself.
Not all problems can be dealt with however.