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

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

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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