On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 06:04 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 18.09.2003 10:22 Uhr, Philip Aker wrote
Lastly, I've heard some rumors about serial port printing being implemented in Panther so that could be another option if it turns out to be true. It will work like how holding down the Option key and choosing Add Printer from the menu bar menu in Print Center does in Jaguar.
Even if the rumour is true, I wonder whether the Laserwriter actually
understands plain serial, or whether it is in fact a LocalTalk only printer.
In which case there is _very_ little hope that it will be supported by any
OS X solution in the future.
Actually, according to Asanté's website, their product allows (some) LocalTalk-based Apple LaserWriters to print in OS X *right now*.
<http://www.asante.com/products/adapters/asantetalk/>
If you click on "AsantéTalk and OS X," the PDF says:
The AsantéTalk device will work with OS/X (and OS/9.2). You will need to set the printer up
by selecting AppleTalk devices in the Utilities/Print Center/Add printer selection screen.
Asanté has been doing intensive research with OS/10.x and OS/9.2.x compatibility with our
products. Here are some things we have noted that we believe are important for our
customers to know.
The most major change is to the Apple File services protocol that makes some legacy
devices (such as older AppleTalk printers) unusable. OS/10.x and OS/9.2.x do not support
AFP (Apple File Protocol) over AppleTalk. OS/10.x and OS/9.2.x use instead AFS (Apple
File Services). This change will cause problems when talking to workstation running previous
version of the legacy Macintosh Operating System and devices designed for operation with
Apple File Protocol. This means that some older AppleTalk printers are not supported by the
release of O/S10 (and this may be true of OS/9.2 also). We have found that our office's
LaserWriter 4/600 is fully supported but our older LaserWriter NTR is not functional using the
LaserWriter'8' drivers supplied with the OS/10.+ version of the operating system. If your
printer is not working and you are using these versions of the Operating System then we
suspect that the printer might not be supported by the current release of this Operating
System.
- Darcy
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