Laserwriter Pro 600 or laserwriter 300 personal

I have a friend who just bought an intel iMac.
she has 2 old printers, one is a Personal Laserwriter 300 the other is a
Laserwriter Pro 600. she has lots of ink for the Pro.
she also has an Asante'Talk adapter (is this called an ethernet bridge???)
not sure , you plug the serial in one side then the ethernet cable comes out the other side.
I plugged it in but then did not know where to go from there!!!
Can anyone tell me if either of these will work or if I am barking up the wrong tree.
thanks laura

Ask your friend for more help with which printer was plugged in with the adapter.
The Personal Laserwriter 300 is a serial-only QuickDraw printer. It is not supported directly by Mac OS X, even if you solve the cabling problems. there are third party drivers that can support it in a generic way.
The LaserWriter Pro 600 is a Postscript level 2 printer, directly supported by Mac OS X LaserWriter driver. It has an Appletalk/LocalTalk Interface.
The Asanté AsantéTalk is a converter or Bridge from AppleTalk-over-Ethernet to AppleTalk/Localtalk. It could work with the 600. But it is cranky about re-acquiring devices that have dropped out for any reason.
Be sure AppleTalk is turned on in your Mac, in the Preferences > Network > Built-In (or other) Ethernet Pane, center button is AppleTalk.
Make sure the Printer and everything is on and ready, then cycle off the power to the AsantéTalk and count to ten. Turn it back on and open the Preferences >Print & Fax > Set Up Printers > and choose AppleTalk as the method. You have no zones. Your printer should appear.
Do you have all the cables, ending with a Mini DIN-8 (round) plug for the printer?

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