At 08:52 -0500 on 24/01/03, Fred Wonderdog wrote:

>Our classroom has a Performa 5260/120 (OS 7.5.3)which has been printing fine to

Ahem.  This would be better-address on 1st-powermacs, but it's once-removed so
I'll answer it anyway.

>an Epson 600 for years. Last week while switching the printer cable (which we
>do

If you need to switch two Macs to one printer that often, you should invest in
a switchbox.  They're very cheap - US$10 or so on eBay.

>Since there is a modem port, and the chooser offers the choice of printing from
>the printer or modem port, I thought our problem would be solved by selecting
>the modem port in the chooser. However, after selecting the modem port and
>trying to print, we get a dialogue box saying the printer is not responding,
>check connections blah blah blah.

The 52xx have horrible problems realising that they even HAVE a modem port a
lot of the time.  Check out the machine's profile on LEM for a lot of
information on this problem and what you might be able to fix it with.
-- 

the pickle

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