Subject: Re: How to connect a Postscript-Printer to the serial Port the GS?
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From: apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ISCA AppleII Librarian)
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Date: 26 Apr 1999 14:18:02 GMT
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From article <3723d902.9104982@news>, by CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney):

>>"news.uni-freiburg.de" <reesthil@uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>>
>>>I am trying to connect a Postscript-Printer (Kyocera FS800) t the serial
>>>Port of the GS. The Kyocera-Driver only support Apple-Talk. Does anyone
>>>know something about a driver for the serial-port? I know, there are some
>>>Hardware-solutions out there, but they are to expensive, i want to make it
>>>cheap...
>>>
>>>Thanks for any suggestion !

> 
> Huh?  Did this guy actually post two almost identical messages?  One
> about hooking up this printer to a Mac and the other about hooking it
> up to a IIgs?  I'm confused.
> 
> At any rate, there are no printer drivers for the Apple IIgs that
> support printing over an AppleTalk network that I'm aware of.  The
> only drivers I know of all require a Direct Connect to the printer.
> 

Huh?  We are all getting confused :-)  I print from my GS to a Postscript/
Appletalk printer (Laserwriter IINT) everyday.  Enable Appletalk on the
GS and use the Netprinter control panel to choose the appletalk printer.
The Laserwriter driver is the appropriate driver, although when using a
non-Apple printer, the Laserwriter driver from Sys6.0 is better than the
one from Sys6.0.1.  P8 applications also print to the LaserwriterIINT
using the IWEM imagewriter emulator (downloaded to the printer from the
netprinter control panel).

But I am not sure of how well this works with non-apple printers.  I think it
works with a HP Laserjet with a postscript cartridge.

I use phonenet connectors for my localtalk cabling.  Since I use a Rom1 GS
I have slot 7 set to 'Appletalk' and because the phonenet connector is
plugged into my 'printer' port, I have slot 1 set to 'My card'.  A Rom3 GS
can set slot 1 directly to 'Appletalk'. 

I am not sure this answers the original question, which supertimer and
Jeff were trying to answer.  But I wanted to clarify Jeff's response so
that it would not be mis-interpreted to mean Apple II GS couldn't print
postscript or on appletalk networked printers.  The IIGS prints very well
over an Appletalk network.

  --Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)