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

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