Macintosh Plus not printing to Imagewriter II

[altayd9]

I recently bought an Imagewriter II for my Macintosh Plus running system 6.0.8 and while the printer seems to be working just fine, when I go to print something it says printing but there is no action from the printer, I've tried with select both on and off, both ports in the chooser, AppleTalk on and off but nothing. I even tried an older system version I had on an excel disk but that didn't do anything either. I'm thinking maybe its a cable issue but the cable seems fine. It's not an official apple one but its mini DIN8 male to male and its labeled 530-1442-02 Rev A. Is this a cable issue or is there something else wrong?

 

[GaryM]

I've had a similar issue with my setup and I also run 6.0.8 on an SE setup. When it doesn't print I recycle the power on the printer and print again, that usually works.

 

[Papichulo]

try a different cable

 

[Dog Cow]

the printer seems to be working just fine, 

How do you know? Have you printed a test page from it?

If you can print a test page OK, then it could be your cable, or there's a small chance you have a LocalTalk card installed. Your test page should show if you have AT (AppleTalk) on or off, and if it's on, you can't print with the standard ImageWriter driver.

 

[altayd9]

It test prints just fine, and AT is off. I bought an actual apple cable so when it comes in the mail I'll see if that solves the problem