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Vista - Apple Laserwriter II NT driver
Looking for an Apple Laserwiter II NT driver for 64bit Vista.
Any ideas whether there is one or which of the listed ones I might try. I use Epson Stylus Color for color and that's ok, test page printed ok. So it's just the Laserjet that's the problem, it's excellent for the occasional letter, spreadsheet and web pages. And I have several still sealed OEM toner cartridges. |
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Vista - Apple Laserwriter II NT driver
On 10-Sep-2007, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" wrote: Looking for an Apple Laserwiter II NT driver for 64bit Vista. As it is a standard Postscript printer, you can undoubtedly use Adobe's Universal Installer to install the LW IINT PPD into Windows. Question: how are you going to print to this baby? You have AppleTalk on Vista 64bit? No AppleTalk involved, it's a serial 9600baud COM1 connected printer with WinXP, and WinXP had the drivers. Vista doesn't have any Apple LW NT drivers, and doesn't seem able to find any additional drivers on the MS$ search. Although old it's excellent print quality, and being flatbed takes card stock. It's just a case of how do I install a printer that Vista doesn't offer drivers for. |
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Vista - Apple Laserwriter II NT driver
On Sep 10, 3:25 am, wrote:
On 10-Sep-2007, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" wrote: Looking for an Apple Laserwiter II NT driver for 64bit Vista. As it is a standard Postscript printer, you can undoubtedly use Adobe's Universal Installer to install the LW IINT PPD into Windows. Question: how are you going to print to this baby? You have AppleTalk on Vista 64bit? No AppleTalk involved, it's a serial 9600baud COM1 connected printer with WinXP, and WinXP had the drivers. Vista doesn't have any Apple LW NT drivers, and doesn't seem able to find any additional drivers on the MS$ search. Although old it's excellent print quality, and being flatbed takes card stock. It's just a case of how do I install a printer that Vista doesn't offer drivers for. Does it supply drivers for say, a LaserWriter IIg? The IIg has 10BaseT Ethernet, and would be a good way to go. Up to 32 Megs of RAM with 8 RAM sockets, etc.. True Adobe PS, not a clone. You can swap the IINT board for a IIg. I have a few IIg boards if you need one. Raymond |
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Vista - Apple Laserwriter II NT driver
On 10-Sep-2007, Silicon Sam wrote: Does it supply drivers for say, a LaserWriter IIg? The IIg has 10BaseT Ethernet, and would be a good way to go. Unfortunately no mention of Apple printers at all in Vista, or Sun Laser Writer which is supposed to be the same as LW II NT. I've set the port baud and flow control, an LED monitor can see the data going to the printer, but the printer then just coughs and reverts to standby. Only other possible drivers are the HP postscript ones, I'm still working through them, but no success so far. Looks like back to WinXP. Or Linux which has LW II NT drivers. I'm not sure if the IIg board will fit, only boards I know of are the II NT and II NTX. I think the NTX added a parallel interface and larger memory. |
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Vista - Apple Laserwriter II NT driver
On Sep 10, 1:21 pm, wrote:
On 10-Sep-2007, Silicon Sam wrote: Does it supply drivers for say, a LaserWriter IIg? The IIg has 10BaseT Ethernet, and would be a good way to go. Unfortunately no mention of Apple printers at all in Vista, or Sun Laser Writer which is supposed to be the same as LW II NT. I've set the port baud and flow control, an LED monitor can see the data going to the printer, but the printer then just coughs and reverts to standby. Only other possible drivers are the HP postscript ones, I'm still working through them, but no success so far. Looks like back to WinXP. Or Linux which has LW II NT drivers. I'm not sure if the IIg board will fit, only boards I know of are the II NT and II NTX. I think the NTX added a parallel interface and larger memory. Is this the same LaserWriter IINT that uses the HP laserJet II and III cartridges? 8 pages a minute? They did make a Personal LaserWriter, (4 pages per minute) that uses HP LaserJet IIp and IIIp carts. But the the big LaserWriter II had 5 incarnations. The SC, NT, NTX, f and g motherboards. Loosen 2 screws, slide the old board out, slide the new one in. IISC= SCSI Port for printing IINT= Added Postscript, Serial and AppleTalk IINTX= Added parallel, more memory IIf= Added more memory, SCSI port for font storage, faster processing times IIg= Added AAUI port for Ethernet, etc... That's it in a nutshell. I used to repair them printers for many years. Not worth it anymore, of course... Raymond |
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Vista - Apple Laserwriter II NT driver
On 10-Sep-2007, Silicon Sam wrote: Is this the same LaserWriter IINT that uses the HP laserJet II and III cartridges? 8 pages a minute? They did make a Personal LaserWriter, (4 pages per minute) that uses HP LaserJet IIp and IIIp carts. But the the big LaserWriter II had 5 incarnations. The SC, NT, NTX, f and g motherboards. Loosen 2 screws, slide the old board out, slide the new one in. IISC= SCSI Port for printing IINT= Added Postscript, Serial and AppleTalk IINTX= Added parallel, more memory IIf= Added more memory, SCSI port for font storage, faster processing times IIg= Added AAUI port for Ethernet, etc... Uses 95a cartridge for the HP LJ II IID III IIID Only problem I had was having to rebuild and redesign the fuser power supply in the AC power module about 5 yrs ago., Blown triac took out the opto as well. I don't think the Vista problem is the printer but rather Vista having dropped support for this printer whose postscript implementation was a little unconventional, like Acrobat files never printed due to a recognised non-supported font problem. Unless I used Ghostscript and Ghostgum, but for this using the Epson is the easier way out. Unlike MS$ Linux has kept the same drivers from early on, MS however seem to need new drivers written for each new OS, and relies on the printer mfrs. to write them "You want to sell printers, you write the drivers policy" Hence no support for legacy hardware, new OS = new peripherals. The lack of drivers may make a IIg board non-viable. There being no Apple drivers at all. The IIg probably doesn't emulate the HP LJ II, IID, but rather the Apple model. Thakns for your informative reply. |
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