First... Get a router that'll pass AT packets. My D-Link DI-704 works fine and they're cheap. $25 delivered on that auction site.
Is that a wireless router? Any of these routers will pass AT among the wired LAN connections. Probably none will pass it to the WAN but it doesn't matter. What is problematic is whether or not the wireless connection will pass AT. Most don't seem to. A few do. Airport of course does. I've got two wireless routers that both claim to support AT. One almost does but not quite. The other doesn't, I suspect when they claim to support AT the mean over the wired connections.
Wireless routers amount to a router, wireless access point and a switch (which connects the other two to the wired connections. As switches don't distinguish between different types of packets they carry AT along with IP. It's the access point part that blocks AT.
Second... My network is as follows:
Beige G3DT running X.2.6 > Cat 5 > DI-704 > Cat 5 > a silly little 4 port hub >Cat 5 > Etherprint Bridge > Localtalk dongle > four wire phone cord > Localtalk dongle > QMS PS1700 Laserprinter (Seen as HP LJ 4Si)
Why the hub? Who knows. It just wouldn't work without it and it gives me another place to plug in. X-over cable and no hub didn't work. Gives me more blinken lights. ;o)
Odds are your Etherprint Bridge doesn't deal well with 10/100 auto-negotiation with the router's switch well. The hub isolates it from the auto-negotiation.
Software? None.
Go to print center and add printer from the Appletalk network. Let it find the printer and add it.
Oh yeah... I have had NO success networking Epson printers to anything from an SE30 to an iMac. Epsons are intended to be 'personal' printers. Their sharing software is, by far, the worst stuff I've ever seen. Your trying to go from parallel to USB to who knows what to Appletalk to Ethernet is a non-starter. I'll be really surprised if you make it work.
Get a real printer. Even an old HP Deskwriter is a better choice.
Well connecting OS X to an AppleTalk connected PostScript laserprinter is pretty easy regardless of the network media the printer is using. By the time it gets to the OS X computer it's coming in as EtherTalk (AppleTalk over Ethernet). That's because laserprinters are directly supported in OS X. But LocalTalk based printers don't seem to be as they are considered a dated machine so there is no driver support for them. I have this problem with my HP DeskJet. Epson SC980s with built in Ethernet are supported though.
The biggest problem right now is that there are very few low cost Ethernet Inkjet printers out there. I found an HP model but it seems to be on the way out and there are questions about it's print quality and driver compatibility. All the printer manufacturers seem to think USB is the only interface they need to support. They seem to be totally ignoring all the wireless hardware being sold. What's the point of cutting the cord if you have to plug in the printer.
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