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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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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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ETA: THE PRINTER IS GONE DON'T BOOST THIS ANYMORE
Thanks!
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okay I'm not sure how to get the attention of any #Seattle local people involved with the #LocalTalk #RetroComputing network BUT
a localtalk-talking laserjet just showed up on Free Stuff on Seattle craigslist and I thought maybe someone might be interested:
https://seattle.craigslist.org/est/zip/d/mill-creek-vintage-hp-laserjet-2100m/7753245455.html
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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
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The way it works is this:
1. A print is initiated from a device to the CUPS-PDF driver on my #netatalk Raspberry Pi.
2. The resulting PDF is placed in the AFP share of netatalk/afpd.
3. An emulated PPC Mac 9.2.2 running the #AppleScript below is watching for new files in that folder and will print them using Acrobat Reader to the #ImageWriterII via #LocalTalk using the MacPalette II driver.It works, but crashes with dialog that I can't auto-dismiss.
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The way it works is this:
1. A print is initiated from a device to the CUPS-PDF driver on my #netatalk Raspberry Pi.
2. The resulting PDF is placed in the AFP share of netatalk/afpd.
3. An emulated PPC Mac 9.2.2 running the #AppleScript below is watching for new files in that folder and will print them using Acrobat Reader to the #ImageWriterII via #LocalTalk using the MacPalette II driver.It works, but crashes with dialog that I can't auto-dismiss.
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I lifted some halftone settings and stuffed them into the ImageWriter II foomatic PPD and did some test strip prints.
At both resolutions, the result seems to be the same? So maybe that’s not the setting I need. Maybe it can’t be changed? MacPalette II still wins here!
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I lifted some halftone settings and stuffed them into the ImageWriter II foomatic PPD and did some test strip prints.
At both resolutions, the result seems to be the same? So maybe that’s not the setting I need. Maybe it can’t be changed? MacPalette II still wins here!
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In the interest of science, I did an ImageWriter II comparison print of CUPS vs the MacPalette driver for Classic. I think MacPalette wins here. There appears to be better color range and the text is a little sharper.
#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #LiveLaughLocalTalk #ImageWriterII
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In the interest of science, I did an ImageWriter II comparison print of CUPS vs the MacPalette driver for Classic. I think MacPalette wins here. There appears to be better color range and the text is a little sharper.
#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #LiveLaughLocalTalk #ImageWriterII
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With netatalk, a TashTalk hat, TashRouter, and CUPS on the Raspberry Pi, we can do clever things like share a #ImageWriter II printer over #LocalTalk with an iPhone using AirPrint!
This screenshot was printed from my phone to the ImageWriter II.
Interestingly, this was just fixed in the latest netatalk 2.3.2!
#LiveLaughLocalTalk #RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac