On Fri, 23 Dec 2011, [email protected] wrote:
I have two ageing Laserwriter Select 360’s sitting around. One has been demoted to the basement due to fading on one side (apperantly a problem with these, might be rectified with a mirror cleaning), the other just sits around because new toner carts are unobtainable here in Norway.
I can confirm that those printers need periodic cleaning. I used to have a printer guy who would do it for me, but now I guess I'll need to learn how to do it myself.
I have tried interfacing it with my newer Macs with an USB- to-Parallell cable, but then the job just hangs forever in the queue.
Mine is connected to a Linux box via parallel cable. Netatalk is running on the the Linux box so the printer can appear on the AppleTalk network. This works fine for up to OS X 10.5, but of course, Apple has also discontinued support for AppleTalk printing in 10.6 and up, so this whole setup is teetering on the edge of oblivion.
However, if anyone wants the printer(s), they’re up for grabs (although shipping will cost the shirt off your back…).
I've got a handful of these printers inherited from my office. I've had one running for over a decade, sometimes with parts swapped in from one of the others. They're great little workhorses, except for the cleaning issue. At this point, however, it seems like investing time and energy into keeping one running is a losing battle.
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