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Article #15562Using a non-ImageWriter printer with a Mac (How's it done?)
From: jao
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1987 23:54
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1987 23:54
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Question: How easy is it to use a non-ImageWriter printer to a Macintosh? Recently I've had a couple of questions at work (I work at the campus computer center here at Purdue University) about doing this. Making cables to inter- face printer to Mac is no problem; I'm wondering how well the Mac TALKS to non-Apple printers. Often people see the light and upgrade from PCs to Macintoshes :-) but want to keep their old printers. Others want alternatives to buying the IW II. Are printer drivers available for other printers? Do they allow reasonable speed/quality output of all Mac fonts and graphics as the IW does? Anyone here actually hooked up a non-IW printer to a Mac? I'm curious to know what you had to go through to use it without compatibility problems. Thanks in advance for any replies. John O'Malley ----------------------------------------------------------jao@k.cc.purdue.edu Personal Computing Learning | Math-Science B-4 | West Lafayette, IN 47907 Resource Center (PCLRC) | Purdue University | (317) 494-1787 ext 271 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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