Doug X. wrote: > True, it was a beast. I had one and I bought a box of paper for it. I used > nearly all of it up. I bought a colour ribbon for it so it could print in > the five or six basic colours if you didn't want to keep your ribbon. It was > OK until I bought my Quadra 610 together with a flatbed scanner and a > LaserWriter Select. Ahhh, the good old days.
That's an IW II, a totally different printer. The original IW didn't print in color. > > Doug > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Charles Lee > Sent: May 2, 2009 1:15 PM > To: Vintage Macs > Subject: Re: Image Writer > > > > Correct - No IW before the IW (and it was not called an "ImageWriter > I" People started referring to it as that after the IW2 came out. > It was made by C.Itoh. for Apple. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageWriter > > I had one and loved it. Bought it new with my 128K Mac in1984. > Not sure what it's "bad attributes" were though. I never had any > problems with it. > > >> If it's not marked, then it's an I, there wasn't an Imagewriter before >> the IW I. The 9600 has a standard Mac serial port and everything up to >> OS 9 includes the driver. I think it would work using a USB-serial >> adapter as long as it's the kind that has a Mac serial port. >> >> But the question is, WHY. The IW I is an impact printer, it's low res, >> it's S L O W. Oh, and it has some bad attributes too. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
