#imagewriterii — Public Fediverse posts
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Soft Serve Virtual ImageWriter printer now works with the MacPalette II ImageWriter driver for color prints.
Additionally, thanks to the GSport IIgs emulator and @greg, there's now a CLI ImageWriter II renderer that supports color as well!
Edit: Link to CLI ImageWriter renderer: https://github.com/greg-kennedy/ImageWriter
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Soft Serve Virtual ImageWriter printer now works with the MacPalette II ImageWriter driver for color prints.
Additionally, thanks to the GSport IIgs emulator and @greg, there's now a CLI ImageWriter II renderer that supports color as well!
Edit: Link to CLI ImageWriter renderer: https://github.com/greg-kennedy/ImageWriter
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I'm amazed at how fast it prints to Soft Serve. A single page document in SimpleText at Best quality in under 5 seconds! PDF available a second after that.
Here's a video of QEMU 7.1 printing to Soft Serve (stats output in the terminal window above).
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I'm amazed at how fast it prints to Soft Serve. A single page document in SimpleText at Best quality in under 5 seconds! PDF available a second after that.
Here's a video of QEMU 7.1 printing to Soft Serve (stats output in the terminal window above).
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Still debugging the Soft Serve ImageWriter virtual printer, trying to make it "well behaved." If you're on #GlobalTalk and have a moment to test, send me a test print at Biosrhythm zone.
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Still debugging the Soft Serve ImageWriter virtual printer, trying to make it "well behaved." If you're on #GlobalTalk and have a moment to test, send me a test print at Biosrhythm zone.
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First successful ImageWriter II print to my Soft Serve ImageWriter spooler over #GlobalTalk! Thanks to @billgoats for helping me test it!
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First successful ImageWriter II print to my Soft Serve ImageWriter spooler over #GlobalTalk! Thanks to @billgoats for helping me test it!
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More progress! A Mac now happily sends ImageWriter II print data successfully to my terrible Python script.
Cobbling the output together with the "iwem" PostScript ImageWriter emulator, I'm getting something that roughly resembles the original!
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More progress! A Mac now happily sends ImageWriter II print data successfully to my terrible Python script.
Cobbling the output together with the "iwem" PostScript ImageWriter emulator, I'm getting something that roughly resembles the original!
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The printer cables arrived, the ImageWriter is connected to the IIe, and I’ve got a fresh copy of The Print Shop loaded up on floppy… looking great! #AppleII #ImageWriterII
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The printer cables arrived, the ImageWriter is connected to the IIe, and I’ve got a fresh copy of The Print Shop loaded up on floppy… looking great! #AppleII #ImageWriterII
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The LocalTalk option card has been installed, and the printer seems ready to go! Next task - set up the LocalTalk network and test. #ImageWriterII #GlobalTalk
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The LocalTalk option card has been installed, and the printer seems ready to go! Next task - set up the LocalTalk network and test. #ImageWriterII #GlobalTalk
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Well, while I’m waiting for a ribbon to arrive, I opted to try a reink of the existing ribbon with stamp pad ink. I tried to distribute it as evenly as possible and let it soak in for about 48 hours. After a few dozen pages in test mode,I think it’s starting to look halfway decent! #ImagewriterII
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Well, while I’m waiting for a ribbon to arrive, I opted to try a reink of the existing ribbon with stamp pad ink. I tried to distribute it as evenly as possible and let it soak in for about 48 hours. After a few dozen pages in test mode,I think it’s starting to look halfway decent! #ImagewriterII
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Printing another Print Shop banner because you can never have enough banners 😆
Sound on for dot matrix ASMR
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Printing another Print Shop banner because you can never have enough banners 😆
Sound on for dot matrix ASMR
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ASCII art color wheel on ImageWriter II
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ASCII art color wheel on ImageWriter II
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Adjusting the CPI and LPI to get more characters.
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Adjusting the CPI and LPI to get more characters.
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Some classics: ImageWriter II color ribbon X ASCII art
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Some classics: ImageWriter II color ribbon X ASCII art
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ImageWriter II color ribbon X ASCII art
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ImageWriter II color ribbon X ASCII art
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A while back I wrote some Python to print directly to ImageWriter II & LQ printers, both mono and color over serial. It also seems to work over AppleTalk which is awesome!
I printed this BYTE magazine cover using MacPalette II and my Python script for comparison.
MacPalette II is better at color but mine is better at smaller details, like the text at the top.
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A while back I wrote some Python to print directly to ImageWriter II & LQ printers, both mono and color over serial. It also seems to work over AppleTalk which is awesome!
I printed this BYTE magazine cover using MacPalette II and my Python script for comparison.
MacPalette II is better at color but mine is better at smaller details, like the text at the top.
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New blog post: Fixing NOS ImageWriter II color ribbons. Long story short, I went back to foam! This post goes through my trials, failures, and success. Hope you find it useful!
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New blog post: Fixing NOS ImageWriter II color ribbons. Long story short, I went back to foam! This post goes through my trials, failures, and success. Hope you find it useful!
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I may have found a solution for the ImageWriter II color ribbon pinch rollers. The O-ring method just wasn’t working for me. Details soon after some more testing. ☺️
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I may have found a solution for the ImageWriter II color ribbon pinch rollers. The O-ring method just wasn’t working for me. Details soon after some more testing. ☺️
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I got O rings from Home Depot (#70 3/4” OD, 9/16” ID) to go around the pinch rollers to replace the bad foam. It worked well with no friction on take up.
Now that the ribbon is all back inside the cartridge, there’s not enough torque to pull it from the other side of the cartridge. The O rings are loose and slip.
Anyone know a source for better O rings?
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I got O rings from Home Depot (#70 3/4” OD, 9/16” ID) to go around the pinch rollers to replace the bad foam. It worked well with no friction on take up.
Now that the ribbon is all back inside the cartridge, there’s not enough torque to pull it from the other side of the cartridge. The O rings are loose and slip.
Anyone know a source for better O rings?
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And the wind up.
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And the wind up.
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Vacuum: 1
Ribbon: 0
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Vacuum: 1
Ribbon: 0
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Still crumbly. Hmmm.
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Still crumbly. Hmmm.
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“I fall to pieces” 🥴
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“I fall to pieces” 🥴
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This animation shows the simulated output of CUPS ImageWriter II DitherPPI setting approximately from 2 to 31. After that, it changes to a more posterized dither and is the same for any larger value. You can see the dithering dots start very large and shrink down with each new value.
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This animation shows the simulated output of CUPS ImageWriter II DitherPPI setting approximately from 2 to 31. After that, it changes to a more posterized dither and is the same for any larger value. You can see the dithering dots start very large and shrink down with each new value.
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I was able to tweak the output of the ImageWriter II prints from CUPS to be slightly better. I've updated the blog post.
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I was able to tweak the output of the ImageWriter II prints from CUPS to be slightly better. I've updated the blog post.
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This Python script will convert an ImageWriter II data stream/capture into a TIFF file. This was incredibly handy for running multiple tests without needing to actually print it on the printer to see the results.
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This Python script will convert an ImageWriter II data stream/capture into a TIFF file. This was incredibly handy for running multiple tests without needing to actually print it on the printer to see the results.
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Ok, so this centipede printer workflow isn’t really reliable so I dove into CUPS to try and see if there’s a way to alter the dithering.
I tried adding different settings to the PPD file but nothing produced any changes.
Until I added “DitherPPI” (a GS option) and it produced a result that was pretty good! I tried various values (30, 80, 120, 180) but they all looked identical. In any case, this is good enough for me!
#ImageWriterii #RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #netatalk
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Ok, so this centipede printer workflow isn’t really reliable so I dove into CUPS to try and see if there’s a way to alter the dithering.
I tried adding different settings to the PPD file but nothing produced any changes.
Until I added “DitherPPI” (a GS option) and it produced a result that was pretty good! I tried various values (30, 80, 120, 180) but they all looked identical. In any case, this is good enough for me!
#ImageWriterii #RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #netatalk