Re: LaserWriter Help!

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

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?  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...