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Portable StyleWriter - driver for >7.1.1?
Posted by: TweedyF on 2022-08-15 10:56:41
I was given a Portable Stylewriter, which is an Apple-branded Canon BJ-10 with included Parallel-to-Serial adapter. It works like a charm with my Color Classic in 7.1.1, and apparently it also works well with the Newton, though I haven't tried this yet.

But no dice at all for me on the Color Classic when running System 7.5.5, or from my PowerBook running 8.6, or (obviously I guess) with a USB-to-Parallel adapter in 9.2 or Mac OS X with Cups/Ghostprint. (There's a Ghostprint/foomatic PPD file for the Canon BJ-10e, but that hasn't worked for me; I don't know if it's the driver, my USB adapter, or my incompetence with GNU printing that's the problem there.)

The only Macintosh driver I've been able to find is labeled version 1.0.

Evidently the printer can print in Epson LQ compatible mode by flipping a dip switch (11), but I also haven't seen any drivers for that printer for Macintosh or Cups/Ghostprint.

Does anyone know anything about getting this printer to print on a machine running system software later than 7.1.1?
Posted by: rollmastr on 2022-08-18 08:27:45

Apple Software Upgrades CD-ROM (July 1997) - Macintosh Garden

This is the Apple's Software Upgrades CD - Volume Four. On it you'll find a whole host of useful updates and utilities to make the most out of your Apple Macintosh and peripherals. A great number of the utilities, drivers and the Mac OS itself are constantly being revised with a view to...
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This Apple CD from 1997 should contain a driver for the Portable StyleWriter. Perhaps it's a newer version.

/edit: another one:
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Apple Legacy Recovery Disk Images : Apple Computer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Apple legacy recovery disk images for Macintosh, Apple II, A/UX, Lisa & Newton.From the CD...Welcome to the Apple Software Recovery CDs, designed to provide...
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