Printing on a Powerbook 165c

[The_LSSR]

Appolgies if this is not the right place to put this....

Essesnelly I'm after a bit of help reguarding printing from my Powerbook 165c. Im trying to print to a perosnal laserwriter ls which is a printer i cant find spesific driver for. I know its a post script printer, but what I don't know is what sofware I need to print on it. Any help or suggestion would be greatly apprecited, as I'm rather new at useing all these old macs.

Thanks Luke

 

[beachycove]

Some of the personal LaserWriters were Quickdraw printers.

To answer your question, however, some version of the the necessary software ought to be in any standard System 7.1+ installation, so your post makes me wonder what is going on. One possibility is that you need to configure Appletalk properly in the Network Control Panel, else the machine will not be able to see the printer and set it up. But let's assume you've done all that.

Basically, the relevant Extensions and Control Panels need to be loaded into the operating system at boot. That means that the machine needs to know to load them. To do this: In  System 7.1, in the System Folder, check to see if there is anything likely looking in the following folders: Control Panels (Disabled) and Extensions (Disabled). Move those pieces into the Control Panels and Extensions folders.  Reboot. If you are using 7.5+, just use the Extensions Manager in the Control Panels in the System Folder (or look under the Apple Menu in the Finder) to turn on what is needed.

If that doesn't work, then someone may have done a cut-down installation or else deleted key parts of the System software.

If so, you could leave things more or less as they are but get hold of the standalone LaserWriter 8.x software installation package and install it. Version 7 would do just as well if you can't find 8. Or jyou could ust re-install the whole System from scratch, which is the nuclear option but probably a good idea if someone has been deleting things like printer drivers from the machine in the past. The latter is what I  routinely do with an old machine.