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Print from MacOS 7/8/9 ?
Authored by: wouter on Nov 15, '02 07:10:26PM

I have a mixed network: one Mac OS X machine and several MacOS 7, 8 and 9 machines. Is there a way to print from 7/8/9 machines to an "lp" printer on my Barricade router?



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Print from MacOS 7/8/9 ?
Authored by: pdodee on Nov 18, '02 12:41:17PM

I can't answer your question, but I can add a similar problem that I'm having that I recently posted to the Macintouch Forum on the Barricade. Sorry it's not the answer you were looking for.

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I've been reading your report on the wireless printing and appletalk bridging on the SMC Barricade with much interest. I recently installed a wireless network consisting of the Barricade, cable modem, tray load iMac (wired connection), and a G4 iMac (wireless).

The old iMac has 2 printers (Epson 820 & 740i) connected to it through a USB hub and the G4 iMac can print to these wirelessly, no problem, in OS X (10.2, native print drivers or GIMP). However, Classic apps (such as Word 2001) running on the G4 iMac cannot even see either printer (and yes, I've turned on all the "share printer" selections I'm aware of on both machine"s Classic environment).

Question number one is: Is it possible to print wirelessly from Classic in such a setup?

Secondly, I got all excited about hearing people's successes with printing to old legacy printers that I dug an old Apple Personal Laserwriter 320 out of a closet for a try. Now here's the tricky part: I've also got an old Apple to PC serial cable (I've never been sure of the nomenclature of these connectors. basically it's an old cable that I used to use on my 6100/60 to go from the modem port to the external modem... did they even have internal modems back then... ;) ).

Anyway, the point is that the connectors fit. I plug one end into the Laserwriter and the other into the Print Server connection (not the smaller serial connection) and nothing happens at all when I send a print job to the server (yes the queue is "lp" and the Print Center says that the IP connection is good).

Question number two is: Am I attempting the impossible with such a cable connection? I recognize that just because the cable fits doesn't necessarily mean that one should wear it (to REALLy mix up metaphors). Should I expect success if I use a LocalTalk to Ethernet convertor?

Any help or pointers would be much appreciated.

Garth



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Print from MacOS 7/8/9 ?
Authored by: dougnorton on Apr 12, '03 07:43:58PM

You can print to an lpr printer with MacOS 9 (I think 8 too). Just
look for "Apple Printer Utility" and use that to create a desktop LPR
printer. It will only work with PostScript printers.



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Print from MacOS 7/8/9 ?
Authored by: jiclark on Jul 31, '03 01:01:22AM

Any chance we could get a little more detail as to how to set up an LPR printer using the Desktop Printer Utility in OS 8.6???

I'd sure be grateful...

TIA,
John-o

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