http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.legacy/laser.html
Under the language, it says quickdraw.
Compare that to my old 4/600, which notes that it is a postscript printer. And If you look at the ports, while they look the same, as the applespec notes, one is a plain old serial, and the other on the 4/600 is localtalk. Admittedly, an ethernet port would be far superior, but at lest with the 4/600 you can use a cheap ethernet to localtalk bridge and print straight out of OSX.
One other thing you said confuses me. You say to use gimp-print, you must had a postscript printer. If you have a postscript printer, OSX should have the drivers anyway, apart from gimp-print.
cheers.
John Slavin
On Jan 31, 2004, at 11:54 AM, John Acuff wrote:
On Saturday, January 31, 2004, at 11:14 AM, John Slavin wrote:
I'm getting to this discussion late, but I have a couple of observations. First, I don't think the Personal Laserwriter LS is a localtalk printer, meaning it's a plain old serial printer. Can you use this:
http://www.belkin.com/support/compatlists/F5U114-MAC.html
Yep, that will give you the physical connection, and will work fine under OS 9. I use one on my iMac (OS 9) to connect to my Newton, but it doesn't play well with OS X. For that (X), I use the Keyspan. But it still won't allow me to use my PLW 300. The deal-breaker here is that in order to use the old Apple printers, you have to use Gimp-print under OS X, and Gimp only works with Postscript printers. As I said before, I don't know if the LS is Postscript or not, but my 300 isn't. But if anybody knows of another way to do this, I'd love to hear about. Otherwise, I'll keep looking for one that's Postscript with ethernet.
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