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Personal Laserwriter NTR
Authored by: Jeep on Nov 05, '03 05:55:59PM

Just wanted to chim in (months later) that we have an old Laserwriter NTR and a Beige G3 running OSX. A friend just loaned me the same type of Parallel-to-USB converter cable, and it does the same thing - shows up as an Unknown printer....

Anyone have any other tricks?

An earlier suggestion above said use a LocalTalk to Ethernet bridge such as:
http://www.asante.com/products/adapters/asantetalk/index.html

But pricing on this device is about $85. Is it worth it? What if I buy a network router? Can I attach the Laserwriter NTR to that somehow? Don't some routers include a parallel port? But will OSX still refuse to talk with the printer?

(When you look at spending $85 towards an old printer, you start to ask why not just buy a new ink jet and be done with it...)



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