Recent content by beachycove

I would buy some Varta cells and replace the backup batteries before doing anything else. The 2400c is inordinately sensitive to this.

My Laserjet 4+m works across the board. Most of the old Laserwriters can be made to work as well, by adding the relevant PPD file to OSX. It’s just a few lines of text; the real magic seems to be worked by postscript.

When I first read the topic a few days ago, I thought it was about one of those boxes that people used to stick to the sides of their Macs to put the mouse in when not in use…. You know, a mouse nest. Turns out it was about something else, and then morphed into something else, as things do. So...

Actually, come to think of it, what the 6MB RAM really helps with in the case of the 4/600 is that for things like PDFs and photos, etc.,, there are no more out of memory errors. In practice, that is more important than speed sometimes. I was printing to mine, via a print server, a localtalk to...

The additional RAM (to 6MB) does speed up the 4/600, but not to the point of it being fast by anyone’s standards today. A print server helps if spooling, as it releases the machine from which you are printing. The printer then gets there eventually. Oddly enough, for years I found the 4/600...

Well, I’ve had three of these/ the ColorSync fail on me, and that was starting maybe 15 years ago. If you are good with a soldering iron, maybe; if not, I’d pass — having said which, the CRT is excellent, if and when it works.

I’d take the lid off in order to see what is happening when a machine is slid in. It has been a few yeas, but I seem to recall that there are mechanical switches that trigger the action.

I would have thought so, yes.

The machine needs a battery, or you can flip the power switch off and on quickly after the grey screen first comes up.

Quad G5 hard drive fan/s; I am in Canada, A0A1G0 for postage.

I just checked out agawa, and unfortunately, they don’t seem to have cartridge parts like they used to. They do, however, seem to have new or renewed cartridges for the 4/600: https://www.agawa-shop.com/szukaj/74A/eng . Or you could try writing to them and asking about the parts. Most Poles will...

Years back, I came across a company in Poland called agawa ( https://www.agawa.pl/ ) that sells all sorts of printer/ toner parts, when I was scouting out parts for a LaserWriter 8500. You might need to order 10+ blades, mind (assuming they have them). Also, these guys in Toronto are really...