[muglo] Re: Laser Printer setup

This is just off the top of my head, but I believe if you were to 
upgrade to 8.6 you would not have to install any printer drivers, 
because, as Tee said, your printer should be shown in the Chooser. 
It could be true of 8.5.1 as well, but I'm more sure of it for 8.6, 
because that's what I'm using and I was told by Apple not to add any 
printer drivers as it could mess things up.  I'm using an Apple 
Personal Laserwriter 300, so a similar model.

Your OS likely includes different printer drivers, such as 
Laserwriter.  You simply select that one in the Chooser and make sure 
Appletalk is off, and you should be fine.  Often the problem is that 
Appletalk is on; it has to be off.

I would try the Chooser method first with 8.5.1 before installing any 
drivers.  If that doesn't work, then see if you can upgrade to 8.6, 
as I'm pretty sure the printer driver is included with that one.

Leith

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>On 20-Nov-04, at 9:15 PM, Joni, Thom and Jeremy wrote:
>
>>  Hello. I hope someone can think back to early Power PCs to help me. I
>>  just acquired an Apple Personal LaserWriter 320 in what appears to be
>>  in very good shape. I would like to hook it up to a 8100/80 running
>>  Mac os 8.5.1. Do I need to download drivers for this model? So far I
>>  have a icon on my desktop that says LaserWriter 300 L (s or w ) and of
>>  course no printing is happening when printing from Claris Works or
>>  Simple Text.If I do require a driver does anyone have a copy as I only
>>  have a PC on line right now. Downloading to that and then transferring
>>  to the Mac is just.....Don't go there....right.
>>  Also If anyone has a 56K modem they want to get rid of ...... let me
>>  know.
>>
>>  Take Care All.
>>
>>  Thom Davey
>>  The G5 Dreamer
>Hi,
>I'm 95% sure that I still have the drivers for the 320, although if
>running 8.5 you probably just need Apple's Print Utility, or something
>akin, which will automatically select the right driver when you go to
>Chooser & select Laser.
>I'll check my disks.
>TTFN,
>TeeC
>
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