Printing From ProDOS® Applications
InkMeister™ Light

InkMeister prints ASCII text to any printer your Mac has a driver for. It assumes that your software is printing to an imaginary interface card in slot 1.

InkMeister does quite a lot of processing: it reads each character that was originally intended for the printer and spools the entire document into a preview window. When the document has been processed, you can browse through all pages.

| 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 InkMeister™ Light Before you can print, Bernie needs to know that you would like to use InkMeister™ Light. You enable it by turning off InkDirect™ - another printing technology - in Bernie's preferences window. |
| Document Layout Since Bernie only receives plain ASCII text, you need to manually set up the margins, font, line length, etc. Bernie's Preferences window features a dedicated InkMeister panel for adjusting the page. |
| The Preview Window Bernie's "Window" menu has a "Printer" item, and when you click it the InkMeister window appears. When you're now printing, Bernie is grabbing all characters and displays them in the InkMeister Preview window. In other words, any output will not be sent directly to the printer but stored in Bernie's preview window. From here you can print all or selected pages. It may take up to 30 seconds for a print job to complete. You can manually complete a pending job by pushing which adds a form feed. zoom in zoom out open preferences page setup print spooled pages previous page next page manual form feed clear all pages |
| Additional Notes Your software may need to be configured for Bernie. For example, you can set up AppleWorks Classic so that common font attributes (bold, italic etc) will make it through. Please consult the manual for application-specific information. Each print job will be appended to previously generated pages. Push the trash button to delete previously generated pages. You can spool up to 99 pages. |