Re: Apple LaserWriter ever work with the Apple Lisa?

While it is true that there was never an official LOS postscript driver, Ray is correct that making this work would be a trivial matter.  The ImageWriter emulator was part of the Apple 2gs software (/SYSTEM.MASTER/APPLETALK /IWEM) and is a simple ASCII text file you download into the printer, and rolling your own DWP emulator would be easy to do. The key here is that the LaserWriter/PostScript is powerful and flexible, allow you to do things that could never be done on other printers at the time (and still today).
Rick

On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 2:31:31 PM UTC-5, Ray Arachelian wrote:
>
> There was an ImageWriter emulator for these postscript printers. You'd
> first upload a postscript file containing the emulator, then anything
> further you sent was printed as if from an IW.
>
> I remember seeing this file many years ago, but never had a LW to try it
> with
>
> It's possible this worked from the Lisa without Mac Works over a serial
> interface if the emulator was somehow first sent.
>
> It should work from MacWorks.
>
>
>

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