LW 12/640 PS + Asante FriendlyNet on Leopard?
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From: AES on 28 Mar 2010 11:59 I have a LaserWriter 12/640 PS cabled to the Direct Ethernet port on a MacBook running OS 10.4.11 through an Asante FriendlyNet adaptor. Works fine. Will this setup continue to work if I upgrade the MacBook to Leopard/ Snow Leopard? Or buy a new MacBook with Snow Leopard installed? [And if not, can it be made to do so without too much hassle?] Thanks for any assistance . . .
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Niels_J=F8rgen_Kruse?= on 28 Mar 2010 13:47 AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > I have a LaserWriter 12/640 PS cabled to the Direct Ethernet port on a > MacBook running OS 10.4.11 through an Asante FriendlyNet adaptor. > Works fine. > > Will this setup continue to work if I upgrade the MacBook to Leopard/ > Snow Leopard? Or buy a new MacBook with Snow Leopard installed? Assuming that is is a AAUI to 10TP transciever, yes. Give the LaserWriter an IP adress on your network first, as you will have to set is up as an LPD printer. -- Mvh./Regards, Niels J�rgen Kruse, Vanl�se, Denmark
From: Fred McKenzie on 28 Mar 2010 14:12 In article <siegman-DE0041.08595028032010(a)bmedcfsc-srv02.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>, AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > I have a LaserWriter 12/640 PS cabled to the Direct Ethernet port on a > MacBook running OS 10.4.11 through an Asante FriendlyNet adaptor. > Works fine. > > Will this setup continue to work if I upgrade the MacBook to Leopard/ > Snow Leopard? Or buy a new MacBook with Snow Leopard installed? AES- You may be out of luck. I lost the ability to print using AppleTalk when upgrading to Leopard, but the printers were still accessible via Bonjour and LPT to the printer's IP address. If your LaserWriter has a serial port, you may be able to find something like an HP print server that has an IP Address on the Ethernet side, and has a serial port for the printer. It might also be possible to use a USB-to-Serial adapter. In either case, there may not be a Leopard printer driver that can be used unless a generic PostScript driver will work. Fred
From: David Empson on 28 Mar 2010 16:19 AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > I have a LaserWriter 12/640 PS cabled to the Direct Ethernet port on a > MacBook running OS 10.4.11 through an Asante FriendlyNet adaptor. > Works fine. The LaserWriter 12/640 PS has a built-in Ethernet port (probably AAUI given its age), but I think it only supports AppleTalk via that port. I assume you have an AAUI to 10Base-T adapter. As far as I can tell, an Asante FriendlyNet is a switch or router (many products under that family name). > Will this setup continue to work if I upgrade the MacBook to Leopard/ > Snow Leopard? Or buy a new MacBook with Snow Leopard installed? The printer should work with Leopard, since Leopard supports AppleTalk (over Ethernet) for printing, and the printer model should be supported. This will NOT work on Snow Leopard, because Snow Leopard dropped all support for AppleTalk. Network printing must use a TCP/IP-based protocol (such as LPR). If the LaserWriter 12/640 PS has TCP/IP support then you will be able to keep using it with Snow Leopard, as long as you set it up with a valid IP address for your network, and manually configure the printer on the Mac using LPR, entering its IP address and configuration options. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Niels_J=F8rgen_Kruse?= on 28 Mar 2010 17:25
David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote: > If the LaserWriter 12/640 PS has TCP/IP support then you will be able to > keep using it with Snow Leopard, as long as you set it up with a valid > IP address for your network, and manually configure the printer on the > Mac using LPR, entering its IP address and configuration options. It does. I have a LW 12/640 PS. Works fine from Snow Leopard. -- Mvh./Regards, Niels J�rgen Kruse, Vanl�se, Denmark |