Re: old LaserWriter with 10.3

Many thanks to those who replied. Luckily the computer and printer in
question are in the same zone. I turned on AppleTalk and set the
LaserWriter up as an AppleTalk printer, and it works.

Don

On Jan 28, 2004, at 11:45 AM, Aron Roberts wrote:

> Don Bain writes:
>> We have an elderly but still excellent Apple LaserWriter Pro 630. ...
>> Is this printer just too old for IP (LPD/LPR) printing?
>
> Yes. Only a handful of Apple LaserWriter printers have built-in
> PPD support, for accepting print jobs via the IP-based LPR protocol.
> These printers are listed in the following article:
>
> "What Is LPR?"
> Apple Knowledge Base article ID 24512
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24512
>
> If this printer is on the same subnet as the computers that you wish
> to print to it, you can still print to its built-in Ethernet port
> via AppleTalk (EtherTalk) under Mac OS X, as you did under Mac OS 9.
>
> However, on Macintoshes running Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther"), the
> AppleTalk protocol stack is disabled by default, and you'll first
> need to enable it as described in the "AppleTalk Devices Don't
> Show Up in Panther" topic at:
>
> Randy B. Singer
> "How To Deal With Common OS X 10.3 Panther Problems"
> http://www.macattorney.com/panther.html#Anchor-AppleTalk-60152
>
> Another option might be to run an LPD server on a machine that can
> send those print jobs, via EtherTalk, to the LaserWriter Pro 630.
>
> Aron Roberts
> Workstation Software Support Group
>
> P.S. For others who also may wish to share older LaserWriter printers
> on a
> network, there's also a discussion at:
>
> http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/magnet/2003/0240.html
>

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