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| Click here to select a new forum. | | LW Pro 600 on an ethernet network? | Posted by: wood_e on 2008-02-19 11:19:56
Can I use a centronics parallel to ethernet server with my new to me LW Pro 600? Would a serial one work? I thought the damn thing had AAUI ethernet... [🙁!] !]'>
| Posted by: wood_e on 2008-02-19 21:09:32
humm? Bueller?
| Posted by: beachycove on 2008-02-20 05:52:51
You'd be able to use an old Mac as a bridge. For software, Laserwriter Bridge will work, as will Localtalk Bridge, as will Apple Internet Router, as will an Appleshare Print Server (with LW Bridge also installed, or even better, and more interestingly, Apple Internet Router - you get zones that way). But for all these you'll need another Mac with both a localtalk port and ethernet in order to network your LWPro. OSX continues to use Appletalk for print services, so the printer will be perfectly functional with any such setup.
I have a localtalk only LW4/600 connected to an Appleshare 4 Print Server/ Apple Internet Router machine (LC475, System 7.1). This setup is rock solid (as in, it will run for months without rebooting) and it works flawlessly with X.4. I don't have X.5 so cannot speak to it.
Of course, you could always upgrade your LWPro 600 by buying a LWPro 630 logic board. Then you'd have the aaui ethernet port that you wanted in the first place.
| Posted by: wood_e on 2008-02-20 06:38:29
Ahh good suggestion! I'll need to mull it over what I'll do - but that Mac idea is great!
| Posted by: MacMan on 2008-02-20 14:04:45
There are also a few Localtalk to ethernet adaptors about from days gone by, such as the Dayna EtherPrint and the Farallon iPrint. I have the Dayna one and my LaserWriter Select 360 runs no problem with my PowerMac G4. The best bit it that it is also on my Localtalk network, so I can print from, say, my Mac Plus and my G4 at the same time!
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