--- musicbox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! anyone know where i can dowload the drivers for > this printer (for sys 8.5)? thks
First off, the printer must have a PostScript cartridge. See here for information on them. <http://www.printerworks.com/Catalogs/SX-Catalog/SX-HP_FontCartridges.html> Then you need a driver. HP never had Macintosh drivers for the LaserJet III series. You can try the HP PPD files from here <http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=44&platform=Macintosh> with Apple's Laser Writer driver or see what the drivers are on that Adobe page. Your next hurdle is connecting the thing. There might be a serial card for the XIO expansion slot or you can use an external HP JetDirect printserver which connects to the printer's parallel port and to the Mac via Ethernet network. HP never made an XIO card with a Mac type serial port and I doubt any third party did. Some third party may have made an XIO ethernet interface that supported TCP/IP. HP did not. (I dunno if the IIIp has the XIO slot like the IIID and others in the series.) Another alternative is to hunt up a PowerPrint serial to parallel cable and software. Strydent www.strydent.com may upgrade you for free to the latest version your cable will support. I bought version 3.0.0 off eBay and got a free upgrade to 4.5 because that was the newest the cable shipped with 3.0.0 supports. 4.5.2 was the last 68k compatable version of PowerPrint. If you could dig up a LaserJet 4M or 4M+ (Same thing as a 4 and 4+ but shipped with a PostScript SIMM) you'd be almost on easy street. You'd only need an MIO JetDirect card with the Macintosh type serial port. The 4+ is better than the original 4 because it supports a duplexer for automatic two sided printing. The 4 and 4+ have four 72pin SIMM slots which can be filled with 8 megabyte parity RAM. With PostScript installed you can only use three SIMM slots. Each model of the 4 series requires a specific PostScript SIMM. (And unlike some other HP printers, they didn't put any RAM on the 4's PostScript SIMMs.) After totally ignoring Macintosh with the III series, HP went back to Mac with the 4's. The 4/5/6 series "legacy" drivers are downloadable from HP. The 4 series also prints at 600dpi VS the III series 300dpi. HP had Mac software called MacPrint for the LaserJet II, but it was a third party solution and from digging up old reviews it was SLOW and the company that made it didn't offer upgrade pricing to buyers of the HP branded version. P.S. 68k PowerPrint works fine with the Basilisk II emulator if you have a compatable printer on the host PC, but the install program crashes, so it must first be installed on a real Mac then the driver(s) selected to install can be copied to Basilisk. It can even be installed on a PowerMac because the driver files are either FAT or 68k code. The installer crashes on the emulator when attempting to install the driver, after the program is installed. ===== It's total Fandemonium! http://www.fandemonium.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
