"Warren Block" wrote in message
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***** charles wrote:

That's what is making it so difficult, getting anything Apple to work
in a Windows world.

At the time that printer came out, there wasn't much of a Windows world.
In 1994, there was Windows 3.1, and most people were still running DOS.

Apple has always seen the Microsoft world as "the enemy".

I would say that as "Microsoft has always seen the world as their
enemy", but it works out the same way.

Problem is MS has 95 percent of the market. If it would realize that
it is better to work with them than against them Apple would get a lot
farther.

The manual for that printer actually has very detailed installation
instructions for the most popular systems and networks of the time, Mac,
DOS, Windows, Novell, and Unix.

True but not for Windows 2000 Pro. The Windows they talk about
is 95 the consumer side. NT/2000/XP grew up to be the business
side which took over.

Just plug it in and it works, that should be the goal.

There were initial steps in that direction at the time, but it was just
getting started.

Linux is having that problem now but it is getting better. I went
into adding all the extras in the add/remove location so I am sure
that if it is there, I have it installed. I always thought that
AppleTalk was a seperate protocol that wasn't needed if the printer
was a tcp/ip postscript printer. Guess I have more reading to do. I
have set up HP net printers that were a LOT easier. Set the IP and
install the client software and go.

I bet those HP printers were a lot newer, also. From what the manual
for the 16/600 says, it does not need AppleTalk or EtherTalk, but should
handle TCP/IP fine. It probably does not support port 9100 printing,
so you should set it to lpr/lpd. And the manual suggests that it prints
a startup page showing configuration; maybe that's been disabled,
though.
--
Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA

Yes, the startup page is disabled. The IP for the printer is set to
something
but I can't figure out what it is. I wonder if I can get LaserWriter
Utility
for Windows (95) to work in Windows 2000, if I can even find it any more?
The HP printers I have set up were at least 5 years old and more like 10.
So they were not THAT much newer. The net box I am using has DHCP
built in (it assigns 192.168.1.100 to my Windows machine. But the printer
doesn't use it. The IP has to be hard coded to the printer. I guess I
could
try to boot to Knoppix and see if I can get anywhere with that. But that is
for another day when I am not under the gun.

later.....

charles * Keene, Texas " USA