Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-10-04 Thread Al Poulin
Bill: First of all, it seems that your older Intel iMac came with Tiger 10.4.4 and therefore may not boot from Panther. I'm not sure about that. And your later Intel iMac would have come with a later OS X. Presumably, your friend's G4 eMac does not have OS 9 installed, the OS 9 drivers are

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-10-03 Thread Bill Spencer
On Oct 2, 1:43 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Oct 2, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Bill Spencer wrote: I knew I forgot something. I find the Apple downloads page very hard to use when you're trying to find old, outdated stuff like the Apple Printer Utility. Could

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-10-02 Thread Bill Spencer
After doing as much research as I have time for I'm thinking that I can get the printer's IP address if I 1) install OS 9 and Panther on the external FW drive I use for backups (I have disc images of 9 and its updates, and install discs for Panther), 2) boot from there in Panther (since I

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-10-02 Thread Bill Spencer
On Oct 2, 1:03 pm, Bill Spencer wspen...@jhu.edu wrote: After doing as much research as I have time for I'm thinking that I can get the printer's IP address if I 1) install OS 9 and Panther on the external FW drive I use for backups (I have disc images of 9 and its updates, and install

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-10-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 2, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Bill Spencer wrote: I knew I forgot something. I find the Apple downloads page very hard to use when you're trying to find old, outdated stuff like the Apple Printer Utility. Could someone please point me to where to find it? Go to Apple.com Support Support

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-19 Thread Charles Lenington
Bill Spencer wrote: On Sep 13, 1:13 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Snip Okay, thanks, and sorry to have gotten mixed up. I'm still a bit mixed- up, unfortunately, since the (minimal) two-iMac network I have is all from an AirPort Express whose only

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-16 Thread Christian Wacker
And a related question: assuming I get a router and connect the 12/640 to it via ethernet, are there any issues with using an ethernet cable that's 15 feet long or maybe even a bit more? (Something else I'd have to buy.) That's about how far apart the router and the printer would be. Now

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-14 Thread gladys pérez-almiroty
well, it plays with mine, but since i upgraded i have become acquainted with the beach ball in ways i would rather forget. it is so bad that i an seriously considering going back to tiger! i have tried all i can think: permissions before and after installation, disk warrior before

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-14 Thread Bill Spencer
On Sep 13, 1:13 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Sep 13, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Bill Spencer wrote:  I actually have an old G3 iBook that would work perfectly as a print server (thanks Bruce, as usual), No, you misunderstand. The printer *itself* will work as a

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Bill Spencer wrote: Okay, thanks, and sorry to have gotten mixed up. I'm still a bit mixed- up, unfortunately, since the (minimal) two-iMac network I have is all from an AirPort Express whose only Ethernet port is being used to connect it to the cable-modem.

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-14 Thread Dennis B. Swaney
On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Bill Spencer wrote: Okay, thanks, and sorry to have gotten mixed up. I'm still a bit mixed- up, unfortunately, since the (minimal) two-iMac network I have is all from an AirPort Express whose only Ethernet port is being used to connect it to the

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Rowson
I've done this successfully at home quite well. I've got an Airport Extreme (not the dual band one) with 3 Airport Express base stations (got them NEW from eBay for about $45 bucks each) I've got 2 of them acting as a bridge for my DIrecTV HDDVR units. DirecTV will allow you free on-demand

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-13 Thread Bill Spencer
On Sep 12, 9:35 am, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 11, 9:33 pm, Bill Spencer wspen...@jhu.edu wrote: Never mind, I just found out about USB-to-parallel cables, so that should do the trick...right? Bill That may put you part way there.  Cables deal with hardware issues.

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 13, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Bill Spencer wrote: I actually have an old G3 iBook that would work perfectly as a print server (thanks Bruce, as usual), No, you misunderstand. The printer *itself* will work as a print server. It has an ethernet port and connects directly to the network;

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-13 Thread Al Poulin
On Sep 13, 1:13 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Sep 13, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Bill Spencer wrote: The printer *itself* will work as a print server. It has an ethernet   port and connects directly to the network; and I KNOW they support lpd   (The manual has detailed

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-12 Thread Al Poulin
On Sep 11, 9:33 pm, Bill Spencer wspen...@jhu.edu wrote: Never mind, I just found out about USB-to-parallel cables, so that should do the trick...right? Bill That may put you part way there. Cables deal with hardware issues. It seems your problem is also with the lack of an updated software

Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-11 Thread William Spencer
Hi there: So it looks like Snow Leopard has eaten my dear old LaserWriter 12/640 PS. It seems Apple has dropped AppleTalk as of 10.6...so, am I really out of luck? Or do I have to go back to 10.4 or 10.5? Or is there a way to get them all to play nicely together short of asking me to

Re: Snow Leopard won't play with my printer...

2009-09-11 Thread Bill Spencer
On Sep 11, 8:41 pm, William Spencer wspen...@jhu.edu wrote: Hi there: So it looks like Snow Leopard has eaten my dear old   LaserWriter 12/640 PS. It seems Apple has dropped AppleTalk as of   10.6...so, am I really out of luck? Or do I have to go back to 10.4 or   10.5? Or is there a way to