Re: LaserWriter Help!

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

> dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
> 
> >Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >> nobody@wavetech.net (Greg Buchner) 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?
> 
> 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...

I can't find anything on the System 6 Golden Master that even hints at
being a SCSI printer driver.

The source code to the SCSI drivers has conditional code all the way
through it for various device types, including a SCSI laser printer, but
there is no make file to build the printer driver.  It looks like it was
never completed, and as I said in my previous article, would only be a
low-level communication driver (as a GS/OS device driver, not a printer
or port driver).

There is nothing which resembles a Print Manager printer driver (which
you could select via the DC Printer control panel), and the IISC doesn't
support Postscript, so there is no way you could print to it.

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David Empson
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