Is my 10 year old GCC Elite XL 20/1200 printer still usable?

Hi:
My wife is a graphic designer, and loves her 10+ year old GCC Elite XL 20/1200 printer. Full printer specs are at http://gccprinters.com/products/201200specs.html
In the last several months (since a model year 2006 iMac crashed, which was our lifeline to it because it ran an old enough version of OSX to talk to this printer) she has not been able to use it.
Anyone have any tips on how to print from a relatively modern iMac (model year 2010, 27" 3.2GHz machine running OSX 10.6.8) to this ancient printer?
In a perfect world, the old iMac would boot up, but that hasn't happened yet...
Please let me know if you need more details.
Thanks!
Kevin

Help!!
Until Mavericks I printed from my macbook pro laptop to a HP1100c (parallel-port interface) internet connected on my old generic laptop running Ubuntu
Been doing this since Leopard and worked through OS updates since then without any problems. Now on Mavericks I get "Filter failed"
I can't remember exactly how it runs - I know at one point I was using Gutenberg and I have Gutenprint 5.2 installed in /usr/share and these libs
/usr/lib/libgutenprint.1.1.1.dylib
/usr/lib/libgutenprint.1.dylib
/usr/lib/libgutenprint.2.0.3.dylib
/usr/lib/libgutenprint.a
/usr/lib/libgutenprint.la
/usr/libexec/cups/driver/gutenprint.5.2
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/rastertogutenprint.5.2
but I also have some guten stuff under macports. I long since stopped maintaining macports and it would be a major effort for me to delve into updating it.
Anyone point me in a good direction - like everyone I need a quick fix that doesn't involve delving into how to update macports (is it even running that subsystem - I don't know). Sure I can deal with these low level things but I have a life too - I just want it to work - understanding macports etc. again is dead time.
Come to that I lost track of how to configure printing on the ubuntu half of this too. It would help enormously if I knew where it was failing - what does "Filter failed" mean. It might mean some shell script somewhere failing - if so where, what subsystem ?
andy

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