I picked up two laserwriters a little while ago.. a Personal LW 300 and a LW LS.
The 300 is in nice shape, but the LS looks like garbage and belches out mold stench. I installed the drivers, chooser, all that fun stuff in os 9.1 and hooked up the 300. Nohting worked no matter what combination of ports and appletalk I tried. I was about to give up and accept that it was some mysterious problem with the myriad extensions and control panels I had installed (seeing as how I was NOT willing to do a one-by-one test with disabling things), but then I tried the nasty LS printer. I changed no settings whatsoever, I just swapped cables, and the thing worked first try. It's haggard, and the toner cartridge/barrel is SHOT, so I really want to use the 300.
I'd almost say it was a problem with the 300 itself, but I recall having a 300 in my posession a year or two ago, in near mint condition, to boot.... and I could never get it to work either. It would make it easier if I had an older machine at my disposal to try it with OS 8 or 7.6.1 or something, but I don't right now.
Has anyone had similar problems with the 300 in OS 9? I can't seem to find any info elsewhere online, so I'm at a bit of a loss
I have a LW 300 as well. I havent used it in ages, but as I recall I had no problems with it being used in OS 9. In fact, I think thats one of the only legacy printers that was recognised by Mac OS X (at least in 10.2 it still worked, idk if this is still true with 10.4).
Hey,
Make sure laserwriter8 is in the extensions folder and active. It is one of those extensions that loves to get corrupted.
William
www.williamahearn.com
GEOS: There's part of me that wonders if the printer is just borked, too, of course... and since I can't find any info online about people having problems, I guess it makes that possibility more probable. I'm just hoping it's not the case -_-
Will: the LW8 extension isn't needed for the 300/LS series, I don't think, because they're not postscript or something like that... I had it installed, just to see if it made a difference, and it didn't :/ Curious that it gets corrupted though, that's strange.
Just googled this same problem I've been experiencing and came up with this thread. I have a G3 beige that was working fine. I disconnected it, moved it to the other side of the room, reconnected everything and now it refuses to print. I connected other serial printers and they all worked. Connected other computers to the printer and they all printed. I'm at a loss