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From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Does the Apple Imagewriter II speak plain ASCII?
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Date: 2 Feb 90 20:39:04 GMT
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In article <3084@epiwrl.EPI.COM> parker@epiwrl.EPI.COM (Alan Parker) writes:
>that the Apple Imagewriter II printer can be used a plain generic ascii
>printer with a non Apple system?   Or does it only deal with the Apple
>machines as a bit mapped device?  My kid's school has a chance to get one
>cheap, but they have IBM PCs.   I suspect it can be used with them, but

Yes it does, I have used an Apple ImageWriter II on my pc clone for about
three years now.  The caveat is that the ImageWriter doesn't set CTS high,
I clueged it by strapping the RTS line back onto the CTS line, so that DOS
thinks that the printer is there.  Then use the mode command in your autoexec
file to redirect LPT1 to the COMx port.  Or you can spend $50 to get one of
those parallel to  serial converters.  WordPerfect has a driver for the
ImageWriter, but you have to call them and ask you to send you the printer
driver disk that has the Apple printers on it.

Chewey, get us outta here!
                 
kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov            Jet Propeller Labs
Kaleb Keithley