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
Colin McMillen@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