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LaserWriter 12/640 PS

blackbird

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Just landed a LaserWriter 12/640 PS for free at my local Craigslist. Brand new ink cartridge and a AAUI ethernet transceiver. The guy said he couldn't get it to work with Leopard.

 

Orion

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That's what mine is called, "Workhorse". I got mine off ebay a few years back with the duplexer and extra 500 sheet paper tray. It had only printed 7000 pages too. They are damn nice. I got mine working with XP by copying the Appletalk files over from Win 2k, and I use it under Tiger natively as well.

 
How did you copy the AppleTalk files?

My roommates use XP and to make the printer work I have to do this convoluted stuff with IP addreses and IPP and it usually breaks after a week.

 

Orion

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I believe I ended up googling the issue and then downloading a small installer someone put together with the files needed from Win 2k. I didn't have a Win 2k installation running when I wanted to get it going again, so I did it that way.

Here's what Google comes up with:

Hard way:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020905053943589

and this tells you how to copy the Appletalk files:

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/f47/appletalk-windows-xp-34589.html

I can't find the place where I got the installer anymore. It was a sort of hacked together job that barely worked, but it got the job done. In the last XP reinstall I did (new hard drive) I got PC Mac Lan from my friend and simply used that. Works like a charm.

 
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