From telecom@superlink.net Tue Jan 28 10:18:27 1997 Date: 26 Jan 1997 04:47:25 GMT From: Andrew Szafran Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers, comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc Subject: Re: Need Info on this Apple Printer Followup-To: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc cholton@gator.net wrote: : I have an Apple dot matrix printer, model A9M0305. Obviously an old : model printer, I could use additional info about it. The cable that came : with has a DB 25 pin TYPE connector with only 13 pins on each end. When : attached to a PC serial port, the print head jumped back and forth along : the carriage in one inch strokes. When attached to a parallel port, the : computer did not recognize the printer. I don't see how to attach this : printer to an Apple port with the type of connector on the printer. If : you have any information on this printer, please email me, and thank you : in advance. : CH These printers use the old Apple][/][+/unenhanced ][e serial ports -- 25-pin female at the computer. You need to look up the pins of both a PC (or Mac, or whatever you are using) and build a cable by connecting the appropriate pins (I do not know if you need to cross-over xmit and recv). If you have a Mac with an 8-pin serial port, Apple used to (and still may) sell a 25 to 8 pin printer cable. Andrew telecom@superlink.net Good luck! I used to have an Imagewriter with a 25-pin plug. I used it with a ][c (5-pin serial port [!]) and a ][gs (8-pin old-Mac style port). It blew up (literally -- the print head started shooting sparks and flames) about three years ago (sob, weep, cry, snuffle). From ddsmith@micron.net Tue Jan 28 10:26:13 1997 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:34:50 -0600 From: "Dale D. Smith" To: Bill Lueck Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers Subject: Re: Quickdraw driver for Windows? Bill Lueck wrote: > > Is there a QuickDraw printer driver, either commercial, shareware, or > freeware, for a Macintosh printer like the HP Deskwriter 540 that runs > on a PC under Windows 3.1? If not, is there any other way to print > on a Mac printer from a PC? Please email any information on this to > coolhand@kaiwan.com Thanks very much. > > Bill Bill, First, a couple of things... You are going to have a very hard time trying to get a DeskWriter 540 to even connect to a PC compatible, unless you've got an AppleTalk interface card installed in your PC. The DeskWriter 540 has an RS-422A serial/AppleTalk interface running at 57.6Kbps/230.4Kbps. The printer IS a QuickDraw printer when connected to a Mac, but technically is a PCL-3 printer when it comes to the print codes accepted. This means that if you were actually able to physically get it connected to a PC, you would be able to use a DeskJet 540 driver, which is already installed in Windows, to drive it (as long as the only fonts used are true-type fonts -- as the DeskWriter 540 doesn't have the built-in fonts that the DeskJet 540 has). I hope this can be of some help. Jerry V. Smith jvsmith@micron.net