CompuServe Thread

Dom, I would think you'd know you need at least a parallel printer port. Also if it is an Apple laserwriter it only has the appletalk port and you'll need to add the DoubleTalk card to your Amiga to get an appletalk port on the Amiga to connect it. Check the memory installed on the printer too, the more the merrier, plus the more graphics you'll be able to print on a page. I would imagine a printer driver will come with the doubletalk card, but I'd ask before I bought it. <G> Chris

Dom, If the printer has a parallel port and supports at least HP Laser emulation, it will work just fine… check to see how much memory is installed… you'll want to get one with about 1.5 meg to print out full pages from ProPage/PageStream. If it has only a .5 meg, you'll want to add memory.

In addition to the HP and Apple interface/emulations, Postscript should also work. Bill

>laser printer at a very good price. Don't want to rain on your party. Laser printers are _fantastic_…if your need one. Keep in mind the overhead costs, toner cartridges, paper, etc. will cost your nearly 4 cents PER PAGE as opposed to several pages to the penny on a dot matrix. (keep the old headache inducer around for long documents and the like) 🙂

Dom, if it's a Laserwriter (not a Laserwriter II) I would give it a pass. They are OK for text but extremely slow when printing graphics. The later Laserwriter II was much improved. Even Apple could learn by their second try. <g>

Dominick, Basically, the laser is most likely either Postscript or HP. I think that you might be better off with Postscript, especially with the CBM Postscript driver. I don't think that font handling on HP's is very good on the Amiga, but I am not speaking from experience. I have a LaserWriter II NTX hooked up to my Amiga, via a port switching device called a Buffalo Box. It allows my PC and Amiga to alternatively access both my modem and my printer. This is handy, since the Amiga only has one serial port. I print mostly graphics, and some Propage. Don't do much WP on the Amiga anymore – its hard to beat Word on the clone, under Windows. If its hooked up to a Mac, its almost definitely Postscript, and if its an Apple branded printer, please consider that none of their lasers have parallel ports. Lastly…it could be a Quickdraw printer (read: Mac only). If this is the case, don't spend anything on it, since it'll be useless to you. I'll check my E-mail tomorrow, so as soon as you find out, contact me. I can give you better advice when I know what it is. //Jonathan, \\//via AutoPilot

I'm running a Postscript laserprinter (an Okidate) on an A500 via the serial port and the AmigaDOS Postscript printer driver. No trouble. The non-PS version of this printer (the Oki400 something or other) goes for around $450 street price, new, and it's a solid machine, so bear that in mind if you're buying used. If you have AMAX II+, you can plug in an Apple-compatible laserprinter directly, but it probably will only work from the Apple emulation, not Workbench. — Ron Legro from Milwaukee via AUTOPILOT (The only way to fly)