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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...

There are, I think, two blades in all toner cartridges. One is deeper in the mechanism. Maybe try the same with the other blade? More generally: Obviously, what we all really want is new material on the blade, or a new blade metal and all. Thinking about this, the rubber/ silicon/ whatever in...

I have been around the 68kmla for nearly as long as it has existed, first as a lurker but for many years as a member. The attention given to coding recently is NEW and very welcome. Part of the OP’s question was, in effect, where do I put questions about coding? Mods, we need that topic. Coding...

Very helpful, thank you.

QuickSANE was described by its creators (back of archived brochure) as, “A control panel device (CDEV) that acts as a "traffic manager" routing SANE (Standard Apple Numeric Environment) calls directly to the MC68881/2 coprocessor. The result is that math-intensive operations are executed up to...

Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but I have just discovered a Control Panel from 1990 called QuickSANE, which purports to be able to redirect mathematical operations from the 68030 to a 68882 in machines so equipped. Apparently the Mac OS does not do this (or much of this) redirection...

The PB180 screen is jewel-like in its clarity, and as has been noted, a working one is a rarity. It is as easy on the eyes as any screen that has ever existed. Try it out in the sun — you’ll see that it is also just as good outdoors as indoors, and in fact in some ways it works better there, as...

I had a web server running on an eMate a few years ago, using (simple) custom css rather than the built in page. It too was unstable. I’m interested to see what you put on the SE/30 in due course.

That’s been my experience with 575 plastics. Accordingly, and based on what I’ve seen, my advice would be, DON’T TRY TO DISASSEMBLE THE SCREEN! My 575 basically disintegrated when I tried. I’ve also seen a couple of LC630s that have been as bad — same era. As fly your broken bezel, glueing it...

I would have thought that just having Photoshop 4 running on an SE/30 would slow things down mightily, never mind scanning into it. There is a reason DSP accelerator chips were developed (and bought at great expense on Nubus cards and the like) in the 68k era for this kind of work.

Old grease can develop a glue-like quality, which is what the problem seems to be here — the grease in your hinges has deteriorated. Old grease can bind to an extent that is truly remarkable. I saw it on an OMC outboard motor (another of my hobbies) a couple of years ago, where the throttle...

PostScript LaserWriters with native IP networking like the 16/600 or the 8500 will print with all the bells and whistles and will work perfectly, but at some point (X.9?) it became necessary to manually add the printer’s ppd description (which is just a text file) to the list in one of the unix...

I ask because I had thought the printer’s hard disk was used only to store fonts and things like letterhead graphics, but not to manage printing of multiple copies. I used to have a hard drive in a LaserWriter Pro 630 (similar to the 16/600 but AppleTalk only and 68030 driven). I didn’t notice...

Was this done automatically or was there some software (beyond the standard software printing interface) that did the magic?

The code for Bill’s bank account?

No need for hardware modifications. Sleeper and Basic Black are Control Panels that should do what you want. Sleeper has the advantage that it would allow the spindown of a drive as well, though you may be going the solid state route there, I suppose, so that may not matter. Otherwise, Basic...

What astonishes me is that there is a little man somewhere making fake chips for a living. Apparently…. How many people are still buying 68882s?

That is interesting — about the card stock I mean. I must give the heavier stuff a try, I leave mine on 24/7 as well, since the off/on cycle is just so wasteful. You can, however, set the sleep timer to 30 mins, using the web-based utility, so that saves on a good deal of the power usage. In...

I was wondering. I used to have one of those (with scanner), but the print head developed a temperature sensor problem in the cyan tank, I was moving across country during the shutdown, and it got recycled. You no doubt know what a new printhead costs. I’m now using its older sibling, an 8400...