Need to use a LaserWriter 320

Just got a G4 and would like to use an old LaserWriter with it but do not know about drivers. Can some one be so nice as to "walk" me through downloading the drivers from the Apple site and loading them on my G4. I am using OS 10.2.8

9.2 supports the older stuff, which I refer to as AppleTalk/LocalTalk, provided you have an appropriate serial port that can run at the required 240,000 bits/sec \[most aftermarket serial ports can NOT, except for the Stealth Serial Port and a few others].
9.2 also supports the newer stuff, which I refer to as AppleTalk-over-Ethernet. It is essentially the same protocol, just using a different highway.

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Printing from Apple personal laserwriter 320? help needed

my faithful old apple personal laserwriter 320 works perfectly till 10.3.9.
after upgrading to tiger, this printer was not recognised.
i like some advice in locating perhaps a new driver or a way to get it going in 10.4.4.
Thanks in advance. rollee

I have a PowerMac G3 300MHz Desktop that is running OS X 10.2.8 just fine. I have an older Personal Laserwriter 320 that I would like to use with it. The desktop has the LocalTalk Printer Port (Mini DIN9) connector, so I can connect the printer with a LocalTalk cable. Is there a specific drive I would need to use with OSX???
Thanks!
PowerMac G3 300MHz Desktop Mac OS X (10.2.x) Power Mac G3/300 MHz, 224MB RAM, 4GB HD, CD-ROM, Zip 100 Drive. Sony 17" Trinitron CPD-220VS

Laserwriter 320 driver

Does anyone know where I can get the driver software for my Personal Laserwriter 320 to run on Mac OS 8.5.1? I have a StarMax 4200.
Thanks!

LW300 is a completely different stand-alone driver. It cannot be used for your printer.
LaserWriter 8 should be in the Extensions Folder, where the Chooser can find it.
LaserWriter 8 is built differently from all previous versions. It can service almost every LaserWriter ever made. All it needs to talk to your Personal LaserWriter 320 is a small configuration file. This will usually be found in a Folder inside the Extensions folder named "Printer Extensions". The configuration file for your printer is probably named "LaserWriter Personal 320". Do not move this file out of the Printer descriptions folder -- it only a customization file, not a complete Driver, and LaserWriter 8 will not find it if you move it from its expected location.
Once you select a LaserWriter 8 Extension in the left panel of the Chooser, your printer's name should appear in the right panel of the Chooser -- provided it is properly cabled and powered on and can be found by AppleTalk/LocalTalk. The name presented will be the name provided by your Printer, but without an Icon because laserWriter 8 does not yet know what kind of printer it is.
Select that name in the right pane of the Chooser, and you should get a ( Configure ) button. You will then have to configure it, either automatically or manually (or both) and it will get an Icon in front of its name and be fully useable.
Depending on what extensions you have installed, it may produce a Chooser-only Printer or a Desktop Printer. Either is perfectly serviceable, and this choice can be changed later should you change your mind.
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End of the line for my LaserWriter 320?

I've been using an old Apple LaserWriter 320 for 12 years (really!) and did get it to work with OSX (I have 10.4.6 now) and it hasn't been a happy printer lately. First, the computer wouldn't talk with the Asante Ethernet to Local Talk adapter, so I changed the cable. That worked because the Asante was receiving the signal, but there still is no communication between the Asante and the LaserWriter. I changed that cable as well, and it's still the same thing. I've also reset the Asante and the LaserWriter (because sometimes that worked in the past) and that did not help. (And I know someone will ask this -- Yes, I am choosing the LaserWriter in the print dialog box.) This brings me down the three possibilities: hardware problem with the Asante, hardware problem with the printer, or the OS just really can't communicate with this old printer. In the prefs, it shows that the laser printer has driver 10.4 and PPD 4.0. The dialog box (which comes up when I try to print w/MS Word) still always tells me it can't communicate with the printer.
In case you're wondering why I bother with a laser printer, it is because I do have a need for a lot of B/W printing and hate to use my ink jet for that (but I've been forced to lately).
So it is really the end of the line for my good old Laser Writer?

Oops - I had forgotten how much my printer hates my fonts! I ran a test page with the Times font (something I know the printer will handle, and it did). Up until this point, it kept saying "Printer not responding" and the Asante showed no transmission to the printer. Hmmm... neither of these errors pointed out the fact it coudln't handle the fonts. (But error messages so rarely do help.) So then I took the doc I really wanted to print, saved it as a PDF, and then printed and it worked. I remember OS 9 having a feature in the print dialog box that helped me work around this problem, but there isn't anything like that in OS X. Any ideas?

How to connect my perfectly-working 20-year-old Apple Personal Laserwriter 320 to my iMac running Mountain Lion?

How to connect my perfectly-working 20-year-old Apple Personal Laserwriter 320 to my iMac running Mountain Lion?
Thank you, Morty S.

I have a perfectly-working LW 4/600 with exactly the same issue. They use localtalk - a long obsolete network connection, that doesn't connect to modern networks, and appletalk as the comm protocol.
I think the only choice you have is to use an old powerPC Mac as print server. You tell me which old Mac you have, with a localtalk connector, or that runs OS X 10.4 or earlier (so it speaks appletalk), and I'll tell you how I've done it for the past 11 years or so.
Right now I use a G4 running 10.4.11, plus an etherMac ethernet to localtalk adapter.
Before, I used a PMac 6100 running LPD server software.

I can't get my G3 iBook (OS X 10.4.3) to drive a Personal LaserWriter 320.

I have just resurrected my trusty Apple Personal LaserWriter 320 and the Asante Talk adapter that worked flawlessly on my iMac 9.2. Using the Ethernet port on my G3 iBook with Tiger I get the error message -50 when I try to add this printer to my list.
iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.3) LaserWriter 320
iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.3) LaserWriter 320, iMac 9.2, iMac G5

Do you have ethernet set up on the G3? It must have an IP address before appletalk will work. This is different from the way ethernet/appletalk worked on OS 9.

Personal LaserWriter 320

I have an old Personal LaserWriter 320 which worked perfectly when connected by Ethernet to my Power Mac G4. I have now connected it by Ethernet to my new iMac. My problem is that the printer now 'prints' a blank page between every genuine page. No tweaking of paper specs, margins, or defaults has worked. I can stop it by printing one copy of page 2 to page 2 (out of a 3 page document say) but if I ask for 2 copies of page 2 to page 2 the blank comes out between them -- just as when I ask for page1 to page 2.

I am using the EtherMac iPrint Adaptor which was supplied a few years ago with my G4 to enable me to use the printer (which I already owned).
I am using the built in Mac OS X Driver.
The printer uses A4 paper.
Page Setup allows me to choose between US Letter, A4, A4 Small, and others. I choose one or other of the A4 options every time. This seems to stay put in TextEdit, but not in Word, not in System Preferences.
Printing starts further up the page than the top margin says it should. It would appear that the computer always assumes that the printer uses US Letter paper.

Printer Driver for Laserwriter 320

I need to load the printer driver for my Laserwriter 320 on my iBook, which I just upgraded to OS 10.4. However, the install disk did not have any Apple printer drivers on it, contrary to reports stating that they were on the disk.
I have tried third party sites to find the printer driver download but only the driver for Windows machines can be found.
Does anyone have or know of a source that has the Mac printer driver for Laserwriter 320?
Thanks,
Greg Linn

Hi.
The driver for the Personal LaserWriter 320 is already installed by default, since it's part of the Essential System Software. If you want to check it, just go to System/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj, and you'll find the "l LaserWriter Personal 320.gz".
If I recall correctly, in order to make that legacy printer work with OS X, you need an Ethernet to LocalTalk Adatper, like the AsanteTalk, or similar.
Good Luck.

Personal LaserWriter 320 to iMac?

I have the LaserWriter 320 hooked up to the iMac through an Ethernet router, but the iMac doesn't find the printer. The 320 is not included in the list of installed drivers on the iMac. Any suggestions besides buying a new printer?
iMac Intel Mac OS X (10.4.4)

I have a perfectly-working LW 4/600 with exactly the same issue. They use localtalk - a long obsolete network connection, that doesn't connect to modern networks, and appletalk as the comm protocol.
I think the only choice you have is to use an old powerPC Mac as print server. You tell me which old Mac you have, with a localtalk connector, or that runs OS X 10.4 or earlier (so it speaks appletalk), and I'll tell you how I've done it for the past 11 years or so.
Right now I use a G4 running 10.4.11, plus an etherMac ethernet to localtalk adapter.
Before, I used a PMac 6100 running LPD server software.

Personal LaserWriter 320 print margin issues

I just got a Personal LaserWriter 320 (which goes nicely with my Beige G3 running OS 9.2.1) I had been using a LaserWriter 300, and figured I could print documents pretty much the same - only to discover an amazing problem:
When I choose a letter-sized document, margins can be set to within .25 inch of the edge of the page, and it works. But when I try to print the very same document on legal-sized paper, margins must be .8 inch or even more! I can't figure out how to override this - is there such thing as a fix for this? Thanks!

Which laserwriter driver and what version are you using? It shows up in Page Setup near the upper right corner of the box, or you can find the Chooser Extension in the extensions folder and do a getInfo on it to reveal its version.

Running a Mac G3, having been using a Laserwriter Select 360, but it and two others are now dead. What is the next best or better printer to use?

I am running a desktop beige Mac G3 and have been using a Laserwriter Select 360, but it an two others are now dead.
What is an equal or better printer to use with the Mac?

Hey, BD, I looked at Brothers last night in connection to this questiona and it looks like their newest/current laser print-only units go back to 10.4 but no further.
Brother is the best hope but the OP may need to look for an older model still in stock. For example, for our older Brother HL5250DN, they still show OS9 drivers:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/dlf/download_top.html?r eg=us&c=us&lang=en&prod=hl5250dn_all
Gary, web-check for stores that still have older models on teh shelf. You can also look at "newer-but-not-new" and then use the Brother site to check for OS9 drivers.
Founds some of my model on eBay:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Brother+HL-5250DN
We paid US$199 for ours new about seven years ago. It's been a real workhorse and trouble-free. Well, except for the time my wife tried to feed it a odd paper stock that was not on the printer's official diet!
A Beige G3 consideration: The Big Beige doesn't come with USB ports. You must add a PCI USB adaptor card, and the ones that worked in the Beige are harder to find today.
However, the Beige has built-in ethernet so if you get a printer with an ethernet connector, you will be in bisiness with neither the expense of an extra adaptor card nor the occasional buttheadedness of USB printing. The "N" in our Brother model designates it as a network printer so it has an ethernet port. Many others do also.

Using Personal Laserwriter NT with OS 10.5.5

Is there anyway to use my Personal Laserwriter NT with OS 5.5? I used an EtherMac iPrint Adapter when I was using OS 9.
I was able to get it to show up on the PB 17" but when it went to print it said "Printing" then just disappeared with no action on the printer.

This is a PostScript Level 1 printer. Use the drivers from _http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/pslevel1_. You will still need to use AppleTalk and your iPrint adapter.

Laserwriter 320 manual feed jam

While manually printing envelopes, the manual feed stopped working: the printer begins to draw the envelope in, but then suddenly stops, then the paper jam light goes on. Regular paper jams, too, not just envelopes. Auto feed from the paper tray still works. Tried using a new printing cartridge. No luck.

You can get a kit from fixyourownprinter.com to fix that exact Personal LaserWriter 320 issue: http://tinyurl.com/7vma64. I used their kits & almost managed to revive a near dead Personal LaserWriter NTR. Until the Fuser & replacement power supply I bought died on me. Finding the Rev 4.0 ROM Upgrade Kit was impossible too so I eventually was forced to get rid of it.

Printing to Apple Laserwriter 320

I'm trying to set up an old Laserwriter 320 with my Mac Pro using an AsanteTalk bridge (AppleTalk to Ethernet).
I was able to use this setup with a MacBook Pro using 10.4 (I think: no longer have the machine).
Can I do this with the new machine? If so, what do I do to set it up?

It should be possible. If you are connecting through Ethernet, make sure AppleTalk is turned on for Ethernet in the Network control pane, then boot the printer and the computer, then the AsanteTalk box, and add the printer through the default browser.

I have a new mac book pro which i use in england but I need to use German charachters frequently, is there a way of having both visable on the keyboard?

I have a new mac book pro which i use in england but I need to use German charachters frequently, is there a way of having both visable on the keyboard?
For example so that I can just press shift or another key to get the German character.

Some may already exist, but you will have to learn them. On my old system these can be found through keyviewer.app For example, if I press option+s I get ß Umlaut is a bit cumbersome as option+u then the actual letter. It may be possible to bind a key to do this function, possibly through System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts
I have old, old references for utilities that let you rebind keys to other functions, and you would have to see if they have modern equivalents.
Ukelele Mac OS X Keyboard Layout Editor - http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele - mostly useful for character, not function mapping.
Check Butler, ikeys, quickeys or Spark

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