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Well (and admittedly my knowledge of these things is limited), does adjusting the pots make any difference? I don’t think there’s a setting on them as such that is “correct”, more one that’s correct for the current components that are on the board.. I had a crt I recapped a while ago and when...

Have you checked all the adjustment pots to make sure they’re set correctly?

Ah that I vaguely recall. I suppose one could just hook up an LC475 or something like that and effectively run it as a print server. That said, getting a networkable one would just be easier.

I'm no expert on all the printers, but as far as I can remember the simple answer is no, that all the processing was offloaded to the Mac. I suppose it might be possible to share it from the Mac over the network? I know you could do that with some of the StyleWriter printers.

I'd usually avoid any 'Personal' ones.. as the name suggests they're designed for local use, not network, and most (if not all?) didn't have Postscript from memory.

My understanding is that most of the traces required aren’t present so probably not easily, but why would you want to?

Amazing guide, although I did accidentally read the spoiler and was really disappointed to know the capacitor values ahead of time. Talk about an anti-climax.

Ah so I have hooked up my laserwriter via LocalTalk and it does read that.. so yeah.. there we go, it just doesn’t work with ImageWriters! Shame.. was quite excited at the idea of printing to a dotmatrix from my iPhone.. something about the convergence of technology 😅

Yeah good idea. Thanks for all your help this evening with the rest of it! And serious thanks for putting this package together.. it's exactly what I wanted and mixed with my piSCSI install I've now been able to setup my 7100/80 with the pi inside it to act as a bridge between the old world...

OH Hold on, I've got it working... I needed to run that command IN the build directory. However.. no joy on the printer front! Still.. it was fun working all that out. I feel like I've learned something. Checking for printers Searching for available AppleTalk printers... Found AppleTalk...

I was seeing that too, and when I run afpd -V I get this: afpd has been compiled with support for these features: AFP versions: 2.2 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 TCP/IP Support: Yes AppleTalk Support: No CNID backends: dbd last mysql Zeroconf support...

APT! ARGH why didn't I think of that? I swear I'm getting dumber by the day. So I've followed the rest of the instructions, but oddly my versions of everything except afpd hasn't updated: Taken from the login screen after a reboot: atalkd 4.1.1 - AppleTalk Network Manager Daemon afpd...

Ah now that's interesting, how did you get around the iniparser issue?

Hopefully some smart person will come along and think that sounds like a fun challenge!

Ah well that didn't go as planned. Went to build the 4.2.1 version and it fails on a missing library 'iniparser' - tried to install it but I ended up in a linux quagmire.. decided to quit while I was ahead without ruining the whole setup!

Oooh that's actually really useful, I've bookmarked that for future reference when I'm ready to look into it further. Thanks!

https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/releases/tag/netatalk-4-2-1 Well.. we'll soon find out. I'll post back with the outcome. Wish me luck!

Off topic, but this is something that's been on my radar for a while but I've not found terribly much that seemed useful.. have you found any good sources that I should look at?

Ah now.. I've just been looking at the documentation for Netatalk and it'd seem that that functionality was added in v4.2.0 and your build is v4.1.1 from what I can gather? If that's correct is it safe to upgrade to v4.2.1 using the instructions on https://netatalk.io/install or would the steps...

I've been trying to get my ImageWriter LQ (with LocalTalk card) to work but I'm having some difficulty. When I run check-maciprpi.sh --all it runs through all the checks but when it gets to the ImageWriter it detects it but then gives the following error: Checking for printers Searching for...