Apple LaserWriter 360 and OS 10.6.4

Hi everyone.
I've got a new 27" iMac running OS 10.6.4. My old, trusty Apple LaserWriter 360 was connected to my older iMac through an Asante Talk box. Now that Apple has discontinued support for Apple Talk, I've ditched the Asante box and have purchased a Parallel-to-USB cable for connecting the LaserWriter to the new machine. I downloaded and installed GutenPrint, and everything printed fine ..... the first time!
Today, I tried to print again, but every time I sent something to the printer, the printer would say it was paused. I opened up the Printer & Fax settings in the System Preferences, located the machine, and it said "Printer Offline."
I restarted the printer several times, toggled through the numbers in the back of the printer, reset the printer utility in the Mac System Preferences, and turned network sharing for the printer off and on. (These are all remedies I had seen suggested online, BTW.)
But still, the printer indicates that it's offline. I thought, perhaps the new Parallel-to-USB cable was faulty, but if it were, wouldn't it have failed to print the first day I tried it? Also, if the cable were faulty, wouldn't I be unable to see this printer at all?
Does anyone have any other suggestions, besides buying a new printer? Thanks very much.
-- Tom

OK. The new Parallel to USB cable arrived today, and now I'm more confused than ever. I connected the printer with the new cable, set the dip switch in the back of the printer to "1", and nothing happened. So I set the dip switch to "0" and voila! The printer was suddenly recognized by the computer. I tried printing a Word document, and although it was kind of slow, it printed just fine. Then I printed a 57-page PDF file, and that worked perfectly. Next, I tried to see if I could print from my other iMac through wireless printer sharing. The other iMac saw the printer just fine, and I sent a document to print. But it just hung up for so long that I ended up deleting the file, clearing the printer queue, and turning off network sharing for printing (I don't need to print from the other machine anyway).
But now, the iMac that the printer is hard-wired to says that the printer is "off-line" !!! No matter what I do, I can't print from it anymore. By the way, this is what happened with the first USB-to-Parallel cable I purchased: I was able to print a few pages, and then the printer mysteriously went "off-line."
So I don't think it's the cable, because the iMac still sees the printer. And it was able to print several documents before mysteriously going off-line. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm at a total loss here. Thanks!!!

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