Samsung SCX-4828FN shows up as Laserwriter on Appletalk
- Thread starter beachycove
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Perhaps the Asante EN/SC SCSI Ethernet adapter is contributing to the confusion. Or perhaps the LaserWriter driver is confused by Samsung's identification such that it believes the printer is a LaserWriter. The proof is in the PostScript.
What interested me is that the guy had it printing from a Mac Plus. So it must support classic Appletalk networking, mustn't it? No LPR there, presumably.
The Kyocera EcoPro EP C170N Color Laser printer supports AppleTalk and has Ethernet built in. I print to it using the LaserWriter 8 utility in OS 9.1. I have gotten it to work from 8.6 yet though. I get a printer error when I try. I must have something screwed up somewhere.
The C170N was $200 with free shipping last holiday season at buy.com and amazon.com. The current Amazon price is twice that. I don't know if anyone else still has it at a discount.
Another printer that supports AppleTalk and *should* show up in the LaserWriter 8 section of the chooser to any ethernet or asante-converter connected Mac is the Xerox Phaser 6120en, a nice somewhat inexpensive color laser whose toner should be around for some time to come.
The Phaser 6180 was $250 last holiday season at Staples with free shipping. It was a close choice between it and the Kyocera, but the Phaser 6180 does not have AppleTalk support. It has Postscript, built-in Ethernet and TCP/IP, but no AppleTalk, so if one had an older computer that needed to print with AppleTalk over Ethernet, it would not have worked.
Unless AppleTalk support is in there and they simply forgot to mention it on the spec. sheet? That wouldn't surprise me. If the 6120 has AppleTalk, why not the 6180? I'm sure the firmware for the same family of printers is related.
