Snow-Written Images
Sep. 1st, 2025 03:16 pmWorking around the (current?) output limitations of the Snow emulator to build up some sequences of dot matrix printer commands was, perhaps, just enough of a complication to result in a slight increase in satisfaction at seeing “dot-matrix output from a Macintosh.” After testing the different resolutions available in the Epson printer driver I’d used to feed my existing “printer-command-to-PDF” utilities and seeing confirmation of the old comments about how the early Macintosh would try to scale down larger sizes of its bitmap fonts to produce somewhat better output than you got on its screen (regardless of how this did or didn’t apply to “What You See Is What You Get”), though, I did get to thinking this hadn’t quite matched the earliest days of the computer. As important as Epson printers had been to computing as a whole, they were “a” printer hooked up to a Macintosh. “The” dot matrix printer for that computer, the Apple-branded model with a driver included in the standard system software installation, was the ImageWriter.
( An antique solution )
( An antique solution )