On Jan 4, 2006, at 9:12 PM, Peter Udbjørg wrote:
I have a 9600 running OS 9.2 and OS 10.2 using OS 9 Helper (?) and
exPostFacto.
I would like to be able to use my LaserWriter 16/600 when running OS
10.2,
but so far I have not been successful. (It works perfectly under ) OS
9.2.2
with AppleTalk). I have an Epson Parallel-to-USB cable, and am going
to try
that, but every time I try something "new", something weird seems to
happen
to the system: my Internet connection fails in one system and not in
the
other, etc., etc., so I am leery of trying very much different.
Murray Woods
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Have you tried ESP-print? It's a bit costly, but seems to me you only
have to run it once (theres a 10 day free trial period), and then OSX
has "learned". That's what I did on my G3. Printing in OS9 is done
with the regular serial cable, in OSX I use Gimp-print. Bit of black
magic here, but it enables my g3 running Panther to use my Apple
Lasewriter Select, with a IEEE-xxxx-cable for USB-to-paralell. I even
got USB printer sharing to work, so I can just hook up my new
Powerbook to the Ethernet hub the G3 sits on, and print. Althought I
often have to restart printing, I do get printout, eventuallty.
Preferably of PDFs.
The 16/600 is a networkable printer. Since Appletalk is not supported
in 10.2, you need to connect the printer via an ethernet cable. You can
either use a crossover cable directly from you 9600 to the printer, or
hook the printer into a hub that you Mac is connected to. My 16/600 is
at work, and iirc, it needs the AAUI to ethernet adapter, which you can
get on the swap list most of the time for little more than shipping.
The following is from memory, my beige running 10.2 is at work and I am
running 10.3 at home.
Once it is connected, open Printcenter, or the printer setup utility.
Click on add and it should auto detect the printer and the drivers are
built into 10.2.
Also, you can print to the 16/600 in OS 9 over the same ethernet cable
and your printing will speed up, since ethernet is much faster than
appletalk.
You can probably safely ignore the info from Peter since the 16/600 is
postscript and I believe the LaserWriter Select is a quickdraw printer
that is not supported by Apple in 10.anything
I have it on the network at work connected via ethernet and I can print
to it from 10.2, and our designer can print to it from both OS 9 and
win98.
HTH,
Len
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