Re: What is this?

[MA <Marlin.Allred@unisys.com>]

Greg Buchner wrote:
> 
> In article <6pv5i6$h88$1@supernews.com>, "William Girnius"
> <thedm@sunflower.com> wrote:
> 
> You are pretty much right about everything you said...just two points.
> 
> >The //gs has this buit in as do almost
> >all macintosh up to the mac IIfx.
> 
> All Macs, up to the iMac do have appletalk built-in.  I have a friend
> who has an 8600/350 with the Imagewriter II/Appletalk option (along with
> an appletalk laserprinter also.)  There are too many printers out there
> that have had appletalk capabilities for them to not include it without
> another viable alternative.
> 
> >These connectors are then
> >daisychained using mac or //gs  printer cable.
> 
> They use a special cable...mini-din 3 I do believe...don't feel like
> pulling my appletalk network apart to check.
> 
> Greg B.
> 
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I have a Macintosh LC which insist that Appletalk is enabled for the
printer when it is first booted up. Is that normal behavior?

I would eventually like to share printers between the Macintosh and
IIGS, but since no one has come up with a AppleTalk printer driver for
the HP DeskJet printer on the IIGS, I have been trying to find out what
it takes to turn off Appletalk printers on the Macintosh.

How difficult is to create a Appletalk printer driver for HP Deskjet
for the Apple IIGS anyway?

Marlin