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Re: Using Epson FX-80 with Mac

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From: Sean Parent
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1989 22:23
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Check out the Grappler C/Mac/GS from Orange Micro. It is a smart serial to 
parallel converter that can also interpret ImageWriter II escape sequences 
and generate output for most 9 pin dot matrix printers.

Since it is all external hardware there are no application compatibility 
problems (you use the ImageWriter driver). It will work with system 7.0 
when it is available. And if you find a driver else where that has 
different features you can just use the C/Mac/GS as a serial to parallel 
converter (this is also usefull for applications like Microsoft Word and 
Excel that
can just send plain ASCII formated for a given pitch size).

You can also use it with the Grappler Spooler (or any ImageWriter spooler) 
so you can work while printing in the backround.

Sean Parent
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Subject: Re: Using Epson FX-80 with Mac
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