Recent content by macpaint2009

Follow up to this for anyone who was interested: the shareware control panel Keyboard2Serial is pretty useful for this kind of thing. If you just direct all of the keyboard input to the printer port, it's very easy to send commands to the Imagewriter II. You can get that control panel here...

I've read that since the Plus didn't have a fan, it was somewhat common for it to overheat and have PSU issues. The last time I used one, I was 7, but I've recently acquired a new one that I plan to operate for long stretches of time in an already hot environment (>95 F), and I'm wondering if...

Hm, looks like I answered my own question, duh. The Imagewriter II Technical Reference Manual is clearly what I want. On to Amazon...! What about personal experiences, though? Any tips out there for me to keep in mind?

Cool, thanks for that suggestion. I was wondering if something like that would be necessary. I might try Keyboard2Serial, a shareware extension I found, that may save me having to try to figure out some of the communication myself. Beyond that, has anyone interacted with an Imagewriter directly...

Hello all, Haven't been on this board since about 2002, but I'm glad to see it still thriving. I'm planning to set up a Mac Plus I have with an Imagewriter to basically function as a typewriter -- you press a key, and the printer immediately prints it out. I guess I'd also be open to a set up...