Talk:ImageWriter

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This is a great article. I especially love the reference to elementary school. I fondly remember the screeching banshee like sound these printers used to make.

Thank God Laser pushed them out!

User: TimRiker - were all ImageWriter's serial? or were there parallel versions too? I seem to recall having a parallel port on our APPLE ][ but I don't think the Mac ever had one and these were sold with Macs too, right?

The Centronics port on the Apple II series was an option. The IW had the mini-DIN serial. I don't recall that there was a parallel opton for the printer, but I would not be supprised if some third party made one. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 02:18, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Epson EX-800
The IW2 was not a Epson. Take a look at the EX-800 user manual (PDF). --Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:33, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

They may look different, but I moved from one (the EX) to the other (the IWII) in the space of about two months. Now this was over a decade ago, so my memory may be fuzzy, but I remember them being basically identical except on the plastics. Did C.Itoh even have a color model? Perhaps they were both built from a common engine? Maury 12:16, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

The IW2 is pretty distinctive with the angled body- the Epson is a flat box. I did some occasional repair on the IW2 many years ago- the logic boards in the IW2 were marked "Citizen". I believe C.Itoh and Citizen had some connection- I think both are now part of ITOCHU. The IW2 can be connected to a Windows box by using the C.Itoh 8510 driver that comes with Windows. I've done it- its not pretty, but it works. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 13:23, 5 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Fair enough, consider me learn-ed. Maury 00:22, 6 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I changed "rebranded" to "with mechanism" since Apple redesigned the exterior rather than just sticking a different label on it. (unlike the ImageWriter 1) Also, the C.Itoh model on which it was presumably based is not known - making that statement unverifiable. The 8510 looks nothing like the IW II. Arru 15:41, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Options
The Options section doesn't feel right. I know about ThunderScan (I had one), but I don't recall ever hearing about a LocalTalk option for the Imagewriter, only the ImageWriter II. I'm also unsure about the but about using CUPS with an ImageWriter II: does that also apply to the original? It feels like this is a leftover from a split into separate articles for the two models. -- Hawaiian717 15:18, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

colloquial description
I remember reading the ImageWriter II being described as "R2D2 doing pushups." I always thought that was an apt description.

Source:

"It's easy to tell the machines apart: the original Imagewriter is beige and rectangular, while the Imagewriter II is white and looks sort of like a flattened version of R2D2 doing pushups."

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