Description: AppleWorks: Standard and Custom Printer Interfaces (1 of 2)
Header: AppleWorks: Standard and Custom Printer Interfaces (1 of 2)

 Versions of AppleWorks earlier than version 1.2 don't allow you to run
 Appleworks using any other interface card but the Apple Super Serial card. If
 you wish to use a different interface card, you must upgrade to
 1.2 or later versions.

 For a new owner of an Apple IIe with AppleWorks, dealers should include
 onlythose interface cards that work. The Silentype has its own interface
 card. Asidefrom that, there are two interface cards, the Apple II Parallel
 Interface Card (A2B0021) and the Apple Super Serial Card (A2B0044), that work
 correctly with all of the printers on AppleWorks' Add a Printer list:

  1. Apple Printers
       a. Dot Matrix Printer (DMP). AppleWorks is set up for the Apple DMP.
          If you have any other printer, you must set up AppleWorks for it.
       b. Daisy Wheel Printer (DWP)
       c. Imagewriter
       d. Scribe
  2. Epson (tm) Printer Series: MX, MX with Graftrax+, RX, and FX
  3. Qume (r) Sprint 5 and Sprint 11

 For new owners of a IIc, dealers should make sure that the customer's printer
 is compatible with a IIc running AppleWorks.

 For a IIe owner considering AppleWorks, make sure the owner has a
 configuration compatible with AppleWorks. If the owner doesn't have such a
 configuration, the owner's only recourse to buy an interface card that is
 compatible.

 --> Using AppleWorks with cards and printers not on the standard list

 If you're using a card or a printer not on AppleWorks' standard list, you must
 add a custom printer to your AppleWorks configuration and specify the
 characteristics of the card or printer.

 To choose the following options, type the number and press the RETURN key.

  1. From AppleWorks' main menu, choose "5. Other Activities".

  2. From the "Other Activities" menu, choose "7. Specify information about
     your printer(s)".

  3. From the "Printer Information" menu, choose "2. Add a printer".

  4. From the "Add a Printer" menu, choose "12. Custom printer".
       a. Enter the name you wish to use for the printer.
       b. Press RETURN.
       c. Apple IIe: Choose the slot of the printer's interface card.
          Apple IIc: Choose the port of the printer.
       d. Press RETURN.

  5. Press the ESC key: now the printer has been added to AppleWorks.

  6. Now you must give AppleWorks what the printer needs to perform,
 specifying
     requirments for:

       1. a line feed after each carriage return,
       2. a top-of-page command,
       3. stopping at the end of each page,
       4. platen width,
       5. interface card settings, and
       6. codes for special functions of the printer.

     Items 1 to 4 are self-explanatory and can readily be changed to meet the
     requirements of different jobs. You can do this from the "Printer
     Information" menu, choosing the printer you named under "Add a Printer".

  7. With the Apple IIe, choose "5. Interface Cards". Now AppleWorks asks for
     a code to send to the printer interface card to prepare the card for
     sending data to the printer. Consult the table below for the
     appropriate keystrokes. (Note that [CTRL- ] and the character in the
     bracket means that you must hold the CTRL key down while you type the
     character; do not type the brackets.)

       Interface card                 Code string

       Apple Parallel Card (2PIC)     [CTRL-I]80N
       Apple Super Serial Card        [CTRL-I]80N
       Apple Centronix Parallel Card  [CTRL-I]255N
       Grappler Plus                  [CTRL-I]0N
       Microtek RV-611C               [CTRL-I]255N
       Pkaso                          [CTRL-I]0N
       MPC AP Graph and Graphwriter   [CTRL-I]255N

     If your card isn't on this chart, look in the card manual; it should have
     the code string.
     It's important to note that, although some printer manuals give code
     strings in the form of keystrokes, some other manuals give code strings
 in
     numerical form, either decimal (0 to 9) or hexadecimal (0 to F).
     AppleWorks won't accept a code string simply typed in as one of these
     numbers; you must use a keystroke or combination of keystrokes to send
 the
     number from the keyboard to AppleWorks. Look up the decimal or
 hexidecimal
     form of the number in an Apple II ASCII chart; the appropriate keystrokes
     are on the right.

     Suppose, for example, the manual states that the decimal code string
     09464878 initializes the card.  On an Apple II ASCII chart, 09 is
     [CTRL-I], 46 is the eight key, 48 is the zero key, and 78 is capital N;
     altogether, that's [CTRL-I]80N. To put this into AppleWorks you would:

       1. Choose "5. Interface Card"

       2. Hold down the CTRL key and type I,

       3. Type 80

       4. Hold down the SHIFT key and type N

       5. Hold down the SHIFT key and type 6; this ends the string with the
          carat or '^' AppleWorks requires.



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