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Hi,
I am going to get a new iBook in the next few weeks and am about to sell all my PC stuff right now. I do not want to sell my laser printer tho since it's the best piece of hardware I ever purchased. I print a lot of text and no pictures at all (99% of it for university) so an inkjet is out of question.
The printer has three connectors: IEE ECP 1284B (commonly known as PC parallel port), a LocalTalk port for OldWorld Macs and a IEE ECP1284C connector which I can't really tell you what it is. I also have the PostScript Level 2 SIMM installed and am using it with my old PowerBook 1400 (OS 9.1) right now as well as my PC (WinXP).
Is there a way to get that printer to work with a new iBook (either USB or Ethernet) and OS X 10.3? And are the drivers for this printer already part of the OS X printer driver package?
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or you can go and find a localtalk to Ethernet adapter and make the printer a network printer
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Or you could buy a Jetbridge ethernet adapter for the printer from eBay.
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Thanks a lot. So the bottom line is, there is a way to keep using it even with an iBook. That's the best news I've heard in two weeks  iBook, here I come. Now I just need to find somebody to buy my PC hardware so I will have enough money for the purchase.
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This is what I l aways used for my 6MP. It works flawlessly. And you can then have the printer available to anyone on your LAN, if you have a router or something there. But if you want to print wirelessly to it, you have to have a router that bridges AT from wireless to wired. Apple's and Asante's are the only ones I know of that do this for sure.
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Thanks a lot... unfortunately I have not been able to find any of these in Germany so far 
Update: Yay! Go eBay, found the cable on eBay for 20 bucks 
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Originally posted by aaanorton:
This is what I l aways used for my 6MP. It works flawlessly. And you can then have the printer available to anyone on your LAN, if you have a router or something there. But if you want to print wirelessly to it, you have to have a router that bridges AT from wireless to wired. Apple's and Asante's are the only ones I know of that do this for sure.
Me too. I also have an iPrint LT somewhere that works, but I can never find the PhoneNet connectors so I've continued using the Asante bridge. Flawless, and networkable! Plugged it into Jaguar and it found it instantly & set it right up.
Any of the parallel adapters should work, but it's the software that's most important, so you should check for drivers/compatibility. I can't remember if Rendezvous was a part of that setup or not.
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Damn... turns out, the cable I bought is not supported by OS X - I cannot even install the printer. I checked their website, it says "Windows 98-XP only" whereas they do have other products that officially support OS X as well - this cable doesn't.
Gonna have to go back and search for something, I really need to print but don't want to buy a new printer.
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Originally posted by D'Espice:
Damn... turns out, the cable I bought is not supported by OS X - I cannot even install the printer. I checked their website, it says "Windows 98-XP only" whereas they do have other products that officially support OS X as well - this cable doesn't.
Gonna have to go back and search for something, I really need to print but don't want to buy a new printer.
Two suggestions: get a cheap print server off ebay (I'm interested in one as well, you can get one for about 25 €. Or keep one PC and share it.
Use the generic PCL drivers (and AFAIK they should have specific drivers for the LJ6, too.
But you could also replace it with a new printer, e. g. Kyocera Mita FS-1010 (about 100 € used on ebay, USB, 14 ppm, 1200 dpi quality, Postscript).
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New printer is out of question since for 100 bucks, I won't get anything that is even remotely as good as my current printer. Also, it's definitely the cable's fault since it's not working on Windows as well. Keeping a PC is also not an options since I already sold all of'em
I'm gonna probably get the AsanteTalk LocalTalk->Ethernet adapter and use that or an SMC router & print server. And I was gonna ask a question about that, can I use any print server at all? Like can I get one off eBay and be sure that (given it's not defective) it'll work for sure? I wanna play it safe, I already spent 25 bucks on a cable that doesn't work so I'm running out of cash...
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Originally posted by D'Espice:
New printer is out of question since for 100 bucks, I won't get anything that is even remotely as good as my current printer. Also, it's definitely the cable's fault since it's not working on Windows as well. Keeping a PC is also not an options since I already sold all of'em
I'm gonna probably get the AsanteTalk LocalTalk->Ethernet adapter and use that or an SMC router & print server. And I was gonna ask a question about that, can I use any print server at all? Like can I get one off eBay and be sure that (given it's not defective) it'll work for sure? I wanna play it safe, I already spent 25 bucks on a cable that doesn't work so I'm running out of cash...
Why not a parallel --> Ethernet adapter? That's what most internal printservers do, too. And as for the quality, you haven't seen the printer yet. The full paperway is accessible and the printer cost about 500 € when it came out. I've had several HP printers in the past (at least six, from the top of my head, 3 lasers, three inkjet) and I can say that it can keep up with your laserjet.
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Well I'm looking for something right now. Either a parallel->Ethernet or LocalTalk->Ethernet. But I'm not quite sure whether any print server will work or not, I don't trust Mac OS
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Originally posted by D'Espice:
Well I'm looking for something right now. Either a parallel->Ethernet or LocalTalk->Ethernet. But I'm not quite sure whether any print server will work or not, I don't trust Mac OS
Why, are you still using MacOS 9 
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