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From: demarsee@gamera.cns.syr.edu (Darryl E. Marsee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: HP plotter/Where is Levco?
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Date: 22 Feb 90 20:37:24 GMT
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In article <1346@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> cohill@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Andrew M. 
Cohill) writes:

> Does anyone have any experience hooking up H-P plotters to Macs?  We are
> getting a lot of wierd garbage printing out, probably because we do not
> have the right cable.  Does anyone know what Apple cable works?  We
> would prefer not to buy H-P cables, since they have a bad habit of costing
> $60+.

Whenever I've hooked up Macs to HP plotters, I've found that it takes an 
ImageWriter I cable; Imagewriter II cables will not work, nor will 
"standard" serial cables.

Darryl E. Marsee
Syracuse University
<demarsee@gamera.cns.syr.edu>