[Coco] Printing on cheap crappy printers with a CoCo was Re: Printing on a Coco with modern printers.

[Darren A]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 8:25 AM, bill wrote:

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> As long as we are talking about old computers using old printers :-)
> anybody know of way to use an Apple Imagewriter on a COCO?
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> bill
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The ImageWriter uses a serial interface so it should just be a matter of
making a cable.  The pinout can be found at:

<http://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/Apple_ImageWriter_Serial>

In addition to connecting 'Data Out' from the CoCo to 'Receive Data' on the
ImageWriter, one of the printer's handshaking lines (either RTS or DTR, not
sure which) will need to be connected to the CoCo's 'Data Input' pin.

You would also need to configure the ImageWriter for the correct baud rate,
flow control, etc..  The information for the DIP switch settings is here:

<http://support.apple.com/kb/TA30460>

Darren