I was aware of Canon's mid-90s attempt at the same thing: Canon IS-32 Color Image Scanner Cartridge. While the Canon may be the first color-capable unit, it's interesting to see it wasn't the first ever!
I vaguely remember that AppleWriter on the Apple IIe exposed the escape sequence it used for character-mode print commands like bold and underline to the user. You could change the command to escape sequence maps right…
I was aware of Canon's mid-90s attempt at the same thing: Canon IS-32 Color Image Scanner Cartridge. While the Canon may be the first color-capable unit, it's interesting to see it wasn't the first ever!
I vaguely remember that AppleWriter on the Apple IIe exposed the escape sequence it used for character-mode print commands like bold and underline to the user. You could change the command to escape sequence maps right…