The LR 4/600 PS has an appletalk port only. This means it won't work with your
computer directly. However, there are a couple of things you can do to make it
No, that is not true. OS X is perfectly capable of communicating with a printer via the serial cable. My Apple Stylewriter II is printing fine in Jaguar on a Umax c600/Apus 3000. You have to make some modifications, though.
A good start provide the following links:
http://my.vbe.com/~mbrought/serial_printing
http://home.comcast.net/~somers_software/serial_backend.html
There is, of course, no guarantee that it will work.
Nils
Ed
--- "Dr. M. Burek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I am thinking about buying a Apple LaserWriter 4/600 PS from someone on the Swap List. However, I have a problem... I don't know if it will work.
Here's the specifics:
I have a 7300/200, running OS X 10.1.5 and 9.1 via XPF. According to Apple, OS X comes with drivers for this printer (and I checked, they're in there). OK, fine. However, OWC's website for XPostFacto says that "Serial ports work, except for serial printers". I don't know if this info is out of date, like so much info on the Internet.
Does anyone have any experience with getting a serial printer to work under OS X with XPF, and especially this (or any Apple) printer??
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