Direct-Connect Printing From ProDOS® Applications
InkDirect™


 

 

InkDirect™ sends data from your ProDOS application directly to a serial printer connected to one of your Mac's serial ports.

 

 

Setting Up Slot 1


InkMeister™ Light requires slot 1 to be set to "Your Card". You do this by entering the classic control panels with the shortcut

command-control-escape

Upon pushing this sequence, go throw the screens shown to the right. When slot 1 has been switched to Your Card:

  • push Return to save the change
  • quit all screens
  • choose Reset from Bernie's Setup menu so the changes take effect

Setting up slot 1 is only needed once (or when the slot assignement has accidentially been changed).

 

 

Activate InkDirect™


Before you can print, Bernie needs to know on which port your printer resides. Open the preferences window and choose a port:

 

Also, set the baud rate and protocol options to the values your printer is expecting. The GS Printer/Modem Port and GS Port Exras options do not affect the behaviour of InkDirect - please ignore them.