paulrickardsDoing some thinking and printing today.
TIL The Print Shop for Apple IIe supports the ImageWriter II color ribbon! 😍
Wonder if it will work to capture the output from Virtual ][ and redirect to my real ImageWriter II. Did The Print Shop ever support ImageWriter over AppleTalk?
Yes! I captured the output from the printer in Virtual ][ and then printed it to my ImageWriter II over AppleTalk with Netatalk’s pap. 😎
Although I had to change some of the line feeds to carriage returns to get it to work right:
s/0A/0D/g
s/0D0D/0A0D/g
Made a banner in The Print Shop for the swap meet this Saturday in NJ. Who else is going?
If anyone coming to the VCF Swap Meet in NJ this Saturday is interested in a Macintosh IIx or Mac Quadra 950, get in touch with me! They're big and heavy so I'll only bring if someone wants them.
Update: Swap meet was a success! Thanks to all that attended!
I'll also have a C64, C128/1571, Plus/4, DEC VT220, HP 7470A, 386SX, PII 450.
If you understand that alphabet soup, you should go to the swap meet!
Oh, and I'll have boxes of NOS #PenPlotter pens for sale!
Printing another Print Shop banner because you can never have enough banners 😆
Sound on for dot matrix ASMR
Oh no, I forgot I had this “Compu-Glo” fluorescent tractor feed paper. I may have to print another one. 😎
Orange it is!
Melissa BearTrix@Melissabeartrix It’s a sound you never forget..!
Zander@paulrickards That sound was before my time but i love hearing it still. Paper should be together like that too so u can easily make posters still.
edit: this clip makes me want to find one of these working printers on ebay now 😆
Colin McMillen
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@paulrickards That type of paper is called "Endlospapier" in German, "endless paper".
John Balestrieri@paulrickards Good times.
prokyonid@paulrickards who needs a drum machine when you have a dot matrix impact printer
@prokyonid I mean, a drum printer would be fun to have too 🤔
Vlado Vince@paulrickards see you there!
@paulrickards Possibly toggling DIP switch 1-8 would help with end-of-lines: https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/documentation/hardware/printers/Apple%20ImageWriter%20II%20Technical%20Reference%20Manual.pdf page 26 (50 of the pdf)
@colin_mcmillen Hey thanks! DIP1-8 is currently off on my printer. I think the problem is upstream from the printer-- likely in the process from Virtual ][ printer emulation to saving to a file. All of CR and LF get converted to LF which caused each color to get printed on its own line. Just needed to swizzle them back.
Interestingly, the iwem PostScript preamble you found starts, but doesn't differentiate between CR and LF and no color.
@paulrickards I'm not sure IWEM did color, after all it was made to print to black and white LaserWriters
@colin_mcmillen Found out that if I set the variables AutoLF and CR+LF to false instead of true (the comments mention false was the original setting), I get a properly rendered image, obviously in black and white!
It might be possible to add color support but AFAIK PostScript doesn't support color transfer modes so you'd be stuck with the primaries CMYK.
@paulrickards oh yeah, with iwem i had set those back to the correct defaults.
One thing that seems wrong with Print Shop are the greeting cards, with half of them on the second half of the page. I think there should be something like reverse line feeds or something.
One thing that seems wrong with Print Shop are the greeting cards, with half of them on the second half of the page. I think there should be something like reverse line feeds or something.
@paulrickards Oh no, it's normal in fact according to https://www.mocagh.org/broderbund/printshop-manual.pdf
Justin Derrick@paulrickards Where are you getting colour ink ribbons? Haven't seen them in decades!
@JustinDerrick I found these on eBay but they need lots of cleaning as the foam rollers inside disintegrate over time. I wrote a blog post about how to do it:
https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2919
You can also get new ones that work out of the box from MacEffects:
https://maceffects.com/products/apple-imagewriter-ii-color-ribbon-cartridge
dan 💾@paulrickards Magic! 🌈
The Mac version definitely supports AppleTalk ImageWriters.
The Mac version definitely supports AppleTalk ImageWriters.
Stewart Russell@paulrickards microM8 takes this to the next level and redirects Print Shop colour output to PDF: https://paleotronic.com/software/microm8/
microM8 is an Apple II Emulator for Windows, macOS / OSX and Linux
microM8 is an enhanced Apple II and IIe emulator that allows you to play and "upcycle" classic 8-bit games using 3D graphics and more. microM8 is available to download for WIndows, macOS / OSX and Linux and it's free!
@scruss Oh cool! That's the same as what I did here with Virtual ][, saving it as a PDF. Although I had to adjust the color transfer mode in Illustrator to make the colors come out right 🙃
@paulrickards microM8 goes gloriously over the top with features: Apple Logo breaks out into 3D, complete with hardware acceleration on the host system