Re: LaserWriter Help!

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

:>> >Laserwriter IISC - will not work with the IIGS
:>> 
:>> That's incorrect, Greg.  Apple provided an SCSI LaserWriter
:>> driver for GS/OS in one of their developer CDs.  I think it is
:>> also present in the System 6 Golden Master CD-ROM.  With it,
:>> you can use this printer.  ;-)
:>
:>Do you know that this actually works?  Apple provided a pre-release
:>low-level SCSI driver to communicate with SCSI printers, but that
:>doesn't necessarily mean that they provided a Print Manager port driver
:>which hooked through to it (I haven't looked).
:>
:>It also doesn't say anything about whether the IISC supports Postscript,
:>and I suspect it doesn't, hence the LaserWriter driver wouldn't work
:>with it anyway.

: Nope, I never actually hooked up a IISC to the IIGS to see,
: but GS+ Magazine said that this combination works, although
: they did say to use at your own risk, since the driver was
: pre-release...

You tend to advertise stuff you've read as gospel seems like. That's a bad
practice, especially if you're reading ond inCiders. They in particular were
chock full of vapor and misinformation.

In this day of getting used LW IIg's for $200, there's no need to worry about
whether a IIsc will work anyway.
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