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Grex Micros Item 95: Gray Scale printing on the Mac redux
Entered by raven on Thu Jul 7 02:19:19 UTC 1994:

        Ok I have the color Mac (an LCIII for cheap). Now how do I install
the StylewriterII driver? I had no luck installing the installer I d/l from
ftp.apple.com, as it was only on one disk, and the installer is looking for
multiple disks.

16 responses total.

#1 of 16 by omni on Thu Jul 7 04:53:49 1994:

  I would venture to guess the solution lies in you separating
the system among 4 or n number of disks. The names of the disks
for pre system 7 are System Tools, Utilites 1, Utilities 2, and Printing
Tools. I have no idea what could be for System 7.

#2 of 16 by srw on Thu Jul 7 05:06:45 1994:

System 7 comes on 8 dd disks or 5 hd disks. I think you only need two for this,
the Install 1 disk, and the Print Tools disk. The installer is on the first,
and the driver is on the other. What did you d/l from apple?

#3 of 16 by hawkeye on Thu Jul 7 13:23:22 1994:

You actually should only need the "Printing" disk.  It has it's own installer.

#4 of 16 by srw on Thu Jul 7 13:38:05 1994:

Thanks, Steve, I should have remembered that. I wonder what raven got
from ftp.apple.com.

#5 of 16 by raven on Thu Jul 7 20:37:37 1994:

        I got an image file for the installer. I copied that onto one disk,
thus leaving me without "Print Tools disk."  Could I use disk copy to copy
this image file onto two disks?

#6 of 16 by srw on Thu Jul 7 23:22:24 1994:

No. You should only need one disk, the printing tools disk. It has the
installer on it. I think you want to d/l the hqx file
/dts/mac/sys.soft/7.0.1/7.0.1.1400k/printing.hqx
when you dehqx it, it'll be an image file of 1 hd floppy.
You should be able to run the installer on that to install the
print driver. (caveat: I have not done this.)
It should not prompt for other disks.

#7 of 16 by raven on Fri Jul 8 04:26:14 1994:

        Is 1400k the file size? I ftp from Grex at 2400...

#8 of 16 by rcurl on Fri Jul 8 04:48:32 1994:

Uh oh! You better borrow one from someone.

#9 of 16 by srw on Fri Jul 8 05:28:46 1994:

The file is in the 700's, it'll fit on a 1400k when uncompressed.
It should take about an hour to d/l, I'd say. It could take even longer to ftp
it to Grex, and that can fail if the net i link is too slow.
It's well worth it to find
it elsewhere. Did you ask at the Learning Center? (Mac Dealer)

Here's a net solution that might work - cut Grex and it's slow link and
slow modems out of the picture. Dial merit at 14.4 (you need a fast modem
and you need to live within local access of merit). Type msu-gopher at
the 'which host', and log in as 'web'. This starts their public lynx client.
Now go to web central at cern, and find sites by service type, navigate to
ftp, and select the f-k listing. Use lynx's / command to search that document
for ftp.apple.com and follow the link. Lynx will be your ftp client.
When you find the file you want, select it. Lynx will say that it is 
not a file type that can be displayed, and ask if you want it downloaded.
It will give you a choice of protocols, but you must use kermit.
No one I know has been able to use any other protocol through the
public lynx client at msu. This means you must be running kermit
(I use Mac-kermit 0.99(188) available on the umich archives).

The download will even use extended packets and will be way faster than coming 
through grex. If you get lost navigating the web, send me email and let me
know where you got to and what you couldn't find. Good luck.

#10 of 16 by raven on Fri Jul 8 05:32:01 1994:

        The image file I dowloaded for the stylewriter driver from apple
in sys.soft/imaging, was "only" 600K. Anyone up for having me snail me
them a disk with a SASP?  They would ofcorse win my undying graditude.
Interested parties can contact me here through e-mail. I am ofcourse open
to suggestions that just invovve the net ofcourse :-).

#11 of 16 by raven on Fri Jul 8 05:35:26 1994:

9 sliped in... Alas I only have a 2400 modem. A 14.4 is the next item on my
list of things to purchase. I will give the web a try though. While I'm
at it does anyone know the 2400 dial in for Merit?

#12 of 16 by rcurl on Fri Jul 8 15:48:39 1994:

>   1200 (Vadic)                763-6521
>   1200 (Bell 212A)            763-6520
>   2400 (v.22)                 998-1302        
>   9600 (v.32, MNP4)           998-1303        
>   19,200 (v.32bis, MNP5 )     998-1304        
>   NAS (v.32, .32bis, .22bis)  998-1300

#13 of 16 by raven on Fri Jul 8 18:58:59 1994:

re # 12 thanks :-).

#14 of 16 by raven on Sun Jul 17 21:57:43 1994:

        I finaly got the stylewriterii driver installed and I must say the
        resul
lting printout is no better than a Photoshop diffusion dither.

#15 of 16 by tsty on Mon Sep 5 08:12:19 1994:

Is that bad? Or is that just not what you expected?  I have beenunder
the impression that the Stylewriter was a fairly accomplished printer
evenif it doesn't speak postscript - have i been misled?

#16 of 16 by srw on Mon Sep 5 20:02:50 1994:

I don't think so. I think the Photoshop diffusion dither is fine.
Perhaps raven's expectations were too high?

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