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Personal Laserwriter with an iMac?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Colorado Springs USA
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Does anyone know if an Apple Personal Laserwriter will work with an iMac (presuming a USB-to-serial adapter)? How about drivers, etc.?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Fort Myers, FL, USA
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I have a Personal LaserWriter hooked up to my iBook using the Keyspan twin serial adapter... works great!
Cheers!
Chris
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Sep 2000
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Thanks, Chris_G. I have seen them available for pretty good prices online and elsewhere. I thought it would make a reasonable, good addition to my Epson 740 for printing out b+w pages. Glad to know it's a possibility!
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Fort Myers, FL, USA
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Indigo:
A few caveats about the PSW (I have the PSW 300... not sure which one you're looking at). One, it is an older printer, and it is pretty slow. Its good for printing out general text (max of 300 dpi though), word documents and the like, but I would never use it to print a PDF file or the like... it just can't handle it. I don't recall what B&W graphics look like when printed. I was given the printer by a friend who was no longer using it... but it does well for my needs. One other thing... I don't know if this is true when using the USB-serial connector or not, but on my desktop (a Power Computing PowerCenter Pro with a G3 upgrade chip), the backside cache needed to be disabled or virtual memory needed to be turned on in order to print... this is a known problem with the PSW 300 and computers with faster processors. The reason I don't know about the USB-serial connector is that I have virtual memory on on my iBook. Just FYI.
Cheers!
Chris
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Colorado Springs USA
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I have also had my eyes on the Epson 5700i or the small Brother laser printer (it retails for around $299.00). Both are USB compatible and have higher resolution than the older Personal Laserwriter 300. Perhaps it would be worth it to get a new printer instead? I would be using whatever printer I got for low-key desktop publishing (and for printing out general things like e-mail to save inkjet cartridges), and need one that doesn't use Postscript, which, I believe, would include all three of these printers.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Cleveland, OH, USA
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The USB Serial adapter compatibility is based on the printer being serial. The Personal LaserWriter 300 was serial, the 320 was localtalk. Make sure which model you have before buying anything. The USB adapters don't work with localtalk connections. If it is localtalk, you can get a localtalk to ethernet adapter and connect it that way. Farallon's iPrint LT works great.
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