Re: [TCLUG:5332] Apple Laserwriter II NTX and Linux.

["Troy Johnson" <troy@minco.com>]

I don't know for certain, but I would guess that any kind of serial
port printing is going to be slow. I have seen localtalk to ethernet
transceivers at MacMall or MacWarehouse because they were trying to
sell them with their iMacs (for people with older regular localtalk
Macs). The last time I saw them the price had dropped, but I don't
know what to. Good luck,

Troy

>>> Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu> 04/15 9:24 AM >>>
I had a Laserwriter II NTX's running on pc (windows) by having the
printer
emulate an hp laserjet plus and use the serial port, but they were
incredible slow. I was wondering you had the same problem, or if they
were
much faster when not emulating an hp.

Thanks,

Ben

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, James Raney wrote:

> To make a long story short my girlfriend's mother's work was
throwing one
> of these out.  Not to be one to let a postscript printer like this
one to
> go to an early grave I snagged it and started nursing it back to
health.
> This particular model can be interfaced to either a localtalk port
or
> serial port (9600, 7N1, hardware or software).  After spending some
time
> working with the printer-HOWTO and 'man stty' and tweaking various
> settings I got it to print via the serial port.  However, when the
page
> finishes printing the port on the printer doesn't close -- the
print light
> blinks as if its still recieving data.  The serial port on the box
does
> close as soon as data stops flowing.  I'm willing to spend some
more time
> working with the serial side (I know it works since I hooked it up
to a
> windoze box and got it to work fine) but if I can't get it to go
I'll have
> to go the Netatalk route.  Only problem with this is I've looked in
bunch
> of places and can't find a localtalk-to-ethernet transceiver (or a
> localtalk-to-anything transceiver, for that matter).   Does anyone
have
> any ideas regarding either the serial port setup or where to find
some
> kind of localtalk converter?
> 
> TIA,
> -- 
> Jim Raney
> 
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Wright
> 	
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