Well thats kinda cool! I still use my old ImageWriter II that I inherited from my Great Grandmother (she used the Apple IIgs Woz Edition.) I've used it with my "new" LC 580, since my HP DeskWriter 600 died... Occasionally, a friend, or somebody who knows something about computers will compliment the fact that I am still using a dot matrix printer, before they complain that I didn't pull the little "scrappy" sides off, ha ha ha...
~A.J. Lockhart * [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When All Else Fails; Play Dead"...Red Green --- On Thu 08/11, NODEraser < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: NODEraser [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:51:05 -0700 Subject: Re: ImageWriters We used ImageWriters back in grade school, at first with our Apple<br>//es in every classroom (circa 1990) and then with Mac Classics (1992<br>or so). I remember at least one teacher having an ImageWriter with<br>some old classics as late as 1996, and we used Mac SE's for HyperCard<br>and word processing as late as 1999. However, these were attached with<br>Macs of other pre-PowerMac variety to an AppleTalk network with a<br>LaserWriter II. When I left said school in 1999, the school was 50/50<br>Mac/PC. I imagine they're all PCs now, as they never bought any new<br>Macs after they got a bunch of PCs from a technology bond.<br><br>On 8/11/05, Scott Baret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:<br>> I had to be back up at the school to hand out videos I<br>> had produced for the marching band, and needede u a<br>> banner. As much as I love my new LaserJet 1022, it<br>> doesn't make banners well. So I pulled out my Mac SE<br>> and looked at my four ImageWriter IIs. I hadn't tested<br>> the two I got from the school so I decided to hook one<br>> up, thinking they were ImageWriters and nothing could<br>> be wrong.<br>> <br>> ImageWriter number one got outfitted with paper and a<br>> brand new ribbon. I hit the power on button and the<br>> light came on, but promptly went out and the printer<br>> died. I checked the power cables and everything and<br>> the printer just appeared dead. Is this a faulty power<br>> supply?<br>> <br>> ImageWriter number two, my other new one, seemed too<br>> narrow for the paper that fit fine in the first one.<br>> The ink also seemed to be acting up, as it wasn't<br>> evenly distributed. Furthermore the feed seemed pretty<br>> bad. This one had a manufacure date earlier than the<br>> first one I tried.<br>> <br>> So I went to "old reliable", an ImageWriter II from<br>> 1985 when they first came out. It did the job just<br>> fine despite being in storage for two years.<br>> <br>> Now for the biggest surprise. Only one person<br>> commented on the banner. It was a 15 year old girl who<br>> looked at it and said "Wow...that's the paper you have<br>> to pull the scraps off of! I remember that from<br>> elementary school!" I told her it was from a dot<br>> matrix printer. 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