Re: old LaserWriter with 10.3

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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Received on Wed Jan 28 12:04:48 2004