Path: news.weeg.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!uunet!think.com!sdd.hp.com!caen!nigel.msen.com!fmsrl7!krouth From: krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com (Kevin Routh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: F.Y.I.: ImageWriter to Windows... Date: 20 Apr 1993 12:23:34 GMT Organization: Ford Motor Company Research Laboratory Lines: 53 Message-ID: <1r0q0bINN7vq@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: slee01.srl.ford.com X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 [ Article crossposted from comp.windows.ms ] [ Author was Kevin Routh ] [ Posted on 19 Apr 1993 12:35:55 GMT ] For your information: I hooked up my ImageWriter I to my COM1 serial port and used the C-Itoh 8510 driver in Windows 3.1. The cable I am using is a straight-thru cable connected to a Null Modem Adapter I got at Radio Shack (catalog #26-1496a) for $4.95. It seems to work fine with both DOS and Windows. I used the following command in DOS C:\DOS\mode COM1:9600,n,8,1,p and set up the port the same way in the Windows Ports setup. the Null Modem connections are as follows: 1 to 1 2 to 3 3 to 2 4 to 5 5 to 4 6+8 to 20 20 to 6+8 7 to 7 I printed from several applications and all seems OK. -- Kevin C. Routh Internet: krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com Ford Electronics IBMmail (PROFS): USFMCTMF ELD IC Engineering 17000 Rotunda Drive, B-121 Voice mail: (313) 337-5136 Dearborn, MI 48121-6010 Facsimile: (313) 248-6244 -- Kevin C. Routh Internet: krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com Ford Electronics IBMmail (PROFS): USFMCTMF ELD IC Engineering 17000 Rotunda Drive, B-121 Voice mail: (313) 337-5136 Dearborn, MI 48121-6010 Facsimile: (313) 248-6244 -- Kevin C. Routh Internet: krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com Ford Electronics IBMmail (PROFS): USFMCTMF ELD IC Engineering 17000 Rotunda Drive, B-121 Voice mail: (313) 337-5136 Dearborn, MI 48121-6010 Facsimile: (313) 248-6244 Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Path: news.weeg.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!rosevax!atlantis!jimo From: jimo@atlantis.rosemount.com (Jim Osenberg) Subject: Re: ImageWriter II -=> IBM Rehash? Message-ID: <1993Nov10.183409.13964@rosevax.rosemount.com> Sender: news@rosevax.rosemount.com (Rosevax USENET News auto-admin account) Nntp-Posting-Host: atlantis Organization: Rosemount, Inc. References: <2bofg9$knd@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 18:34:09 GMT Lines: 74 this was posted a while ago and i kep it for my use. enjoy!! You need to use the serial cable that connected your ImageWriter to its old Mac. This will have (I think) a 25pin D-plug on the end. Somehow,this needs to plug into your 386's serial port - probably you'll need to buy an adapter that allows your 386's 15pin D-plug to mate with the Apple 25pin plug (from Tandy-like electronics shop??). Murphy's Law will almost certainly hold here and you will get a connecter who's plug/s is/are the wrong gender - take the Apple cable with you. You will also (probably?) need to have pins 2 and 3 'swapped' between the 386 and ImageWriter..... Eventually you'll get there (I did) and you'll need to use Win3.1's C-Itoh 8510 printer driver on Com1. Make sure your serial port setup in Win3.1 corresponds to the dip switches in the ImageWriter (I use 2400 baud, no parity, 8 bits, I stop bit with no flow control) and all works OK. Use Win's TT fonts. ------------ The IMAGEWRITER is really a C-ITOH 8510. Use those software drivers if you can find them. Otherwise try IBM Proprinter drivers, which will handle most text stuff, but not graphics images. Epson drivers might also work. The Imagewriter has a serial port, unlike most IBM clone printers. You need a serial cable from your COM1: or COM2: port. IBM end IMAGEWRITER END T 2------------------------3 R R 3------------------------2 T CTS 5----------------|-------20 DTR DSR 6----------------| GND 7------------------------ 5 CTS The schematic shows pins 5 and 6 at the IBM end jumpered together and connected to pin 20 at the imagewriter end. If your IBM has a 9-pin serial port connector, then use pins IBM end T 3 R 2 CTS 8 DSR 6 GND 5 Finally, you'll probably want to redirect your printer output to the serial port using the MODE command, maybe in your autoexec.bat or in a .BAT file. MODE COM1:96,N,8,1,P MODE LPT1: = COM1: The first time you print, and DOS asks you for the printer device, enter LPT1: If your serial port is COM2:, substitute that wherever it says COM1: in my example. ------- The pinouts above are apparently for the Imagewriter II. On the Imagewriter I, pin 7 on the IBM side (GND) should connect to pin 7 on the Imagewriter. ------- The above is a reprint of an earlier (last year?) post. Hope it helps. -- A closed mouth gathers no foot. Join Claustrophobics Anonymous - Space is Limited. Path: news.weeg.uiowa.edu!nexus.uiowa.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!vnet.IBM.COM From: jthielen@vnet.IBM.COM (James A. Thielen - Schaumburg, Il.) Message-ID: <19931230.083720.238@almaden.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 93 11:34:48 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: IMAGEWRITER & IBM PCs Reply-To: jthielen@vnet.IBM.COM Organization: Advantis - A Networking Services Company Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of Advantis. News-Software: Usenet 3.1 Lines: 115 Since there has been lots of talk on the board concerning using an Imagewriter iwth an IBM compatible PC I found the attached via Gopher. Enjoy............................................ Jim Thielen ImageWriter Family & Scribe: Connecting To An IBM PC, PS/2, AT&T This article last reviewed: 11 April 1990 TOPIC------------------------------------------------ What are the cable and printer configurations that will interface an IBM PC, PS/2, AT&T 6300 or other IBM compatible to an ImageWriter I, ImageWriter 15", ImageWriter II, LQ or Scribe printer. DISCUSSION------------------------------------------- Cabling pinouts for a custom cable: IBM PC ImageWriter II or ImageWriter LQ (use female DB-25) (use circular 8 connector) ------------------------------------------------------------ 5,6 (CTS, DSR) 1 (DTR) 20 (DTR) 2 (DSR) 3 (RxD-) 3 (TxD-) 7 (SG) 4,8 (SG, RxD+) 2 (TxD-) 5 (RxD-) IBM PC ImageWriter/15"/Scribe (use female DB-25) (use male DB-25) ------------------------------------------------------------ 3 (RxD-) 2 (TxD-) 2 (TxD-) 3 (RxD- 5 (CTS) 4 (RTS) 7 (SG) 7 (SG) 6 (DSR) 20 (DTR) Reference: RS232 Signal (DB-25 DTE) 1 - Sig Gnd - Normally Shield or Chassis Ground 2 - TXD - Transmit Data 3 - RXD - Receive Data 4 - RTS - Request to Send 5 - CTS - Clear to Send 6 - DSR - Data Set Ready 7 - GND - SIGNAL Ground 8 - DCD - Data Carrier Detect 20 - DTR - Data Terminal Ready 22 - RI - Ring Indicate Set printer switches to the following settings for this configuration: U.S. Character set, 66 lines per page, 8 data bits (1 stop bit, no parity), pica character pitch, no LF after CR, 9600 Baud, Data Terminal Ready Protocol. ImageWriter I Switch Settings: 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 SW 1: (CLOSE) X X X X X X X X (OPEN) SW 2: 4 3 2 1 X X (CLOSE) X (OPEN) ImageWriter II Switch Settings: SW 1 : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 X X X X X X X X (OPEN) (CLOSE) SW 2: 1 2 3 4 5* 6* X X (OPEN) X X (CLOSE) * NOTE: DO NOT CHANGE SWITCH 5 AND 6. ImageWriter LQ Switch Settings: SW 1: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 X X X X X X X X (OPEN) (CLOSE) SW 2: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 X X X X X X (OPEN) X X (CLOSE) SW 3: DO NOT TOUCH! Finally, configure the serial port of the computer to match the printer configurations as above and assign the port to LPT1 by running this autoexec program: mode COM1:96,N,8,1,P mode LPT1:=com1 ******************************************************************************