Apple //c Printing

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Apple //c Printing

Is there a way to print from my physical //c to my Windows (or Linux VM) PC via the Serial connection?

I'd love to tinker with printing from PrintShop or AppleWorks, but without the clutter of a large dot matrix printer in my office.

Any ideas? I know that there's an emulator which supports printing...

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Re: Apple //c Printing

I've also tried redirecting the printer output to a text file, but it appears that my windows PC doesn't have the right ASCII codes as I get a lot of the boxes. The software I found which is supposed to convert Epson FX-80 to text (from a dos app) doesn't handle it well.

EDIT: I've gotten somewhere! Check this out!

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So here is what I did...

So today I was bored and I decided I REALLY wanted to make a poster in The Print Shop... but how?

So I got to thinking. The Apple //c (amongst others) used serial printing!

First thing I did was grab a copy of RS232 Data Logger

I fired up The Print Shop, made a poster, and hit Print.

ImageWriter or Epson FX-80...

I figured that more information would exist for the 9 Pin Epsons than the ImageWriter.

Once I "printed" my card, I was left with a .txt file on my desktop PC.

Using another piece of software I found, DOSPrinter I started to experiment.

dosprinter.exe /PDF /9P File.txt

Gave me an output that looked something like this

It's not 100%, but it's certainly neat to be able to "print" from real hardware.

I also tested this method using the Epson options in AppleWorks 2.0 and it prints both Documents and Spreadsheets beautifully.

If anyone knows of a more elegant way to do this (again, from real hardware) I would love to know!

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Re: Apple //c Printing

I've been looking for something just like this as an alternative to trying to buy an old Imagewriter, or Apple Dot Matrix. I'll have to give it a shot soon. Currently using my SSC for Internet via ProTerm, but have fond memories of The Print Shop!

Thanks for sharing.

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I've been looking for something just like this as an alternative to trying to buy an old Imagewriter, or Apple Dot Matrix.

If you just want to do Apple printing - not specifically from a real IIc - GSport has a great set of (real) printer options. See:
http://gsport.sourceforge.net/printer.html

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It never occurred to me to use the GS emulator in that way. AppleWin never had that kind of support. Thanks!

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