Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!claris!scott
From: scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: AppleTalk
Message-ID: <7833@claris.com>
Date: 4 Jan 89 20:30:19 GMT
References: <544@spock.UUCP>
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Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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From article <544@spock.UUCP>, by mustang@spock.UUCP (Neil E McNeight):
> 
> 	My school has a Macintosh AppleTalk system (hold your boo's) with
> 2 ImageWriters, 1 ImageWriter LQ and 1 LaserWriter.  I want to know if you
> could connect a IIgs to the system and use the printers without screwing up
> the Mac's?  Can you connect the IIgs in the first place?
>
Yes, no problem.  You connect the GS via one of its serial ports (preferably
the printer port), & set slot 7 to AppleTalk.  If you're going to be printing
from non-desktop/menu interface-type programs, you need to use the ProDOS 8
chooser program to select the printer, then print to slot 7.  Otherwise, just
go to the Choose Printer menu choice in the application etc...
Make sure you have current system software on all machines or the LaserWriter
may be re-initialized each time a GS prints after a Mac and vice versa.

 
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