Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: Re: Imagewriter compatible printers Message-ID: <1923@uw-beaver> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 03:03:50 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1923 Posted: Mon Oct 15 03:03:50 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 05:46:18 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 14 From: Hess@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA I have an Okidata version that is Imagewriter compatible. It is probably not the thing to get, at least not right now. Why? Well, the fundamental horizontal resolution of the printhead is not the same as the Imagewriter's. It in- terprets the codes sent to it correctly as near as I can tell (we only used with the Mac for a few minutes, screen dumps, and a little write output), BUT an application that relies on the horizontal dot resolution of the printer to do micro- spacing didn't work. It's the same reason that Okidata's Plug'N'Play option to emulate the Epson didn't work -- they don't have the same smallest horizontal motion, and the Oki ROMs are interpolating and patching up things later, it thinks. Brian