Personal LaserWriter 300, printer sharing

I have a Personal Laserwriter 300 connected with a serial cord to the printer port of a Power Macintosh G3 desktop, running OS 8.0. I am trying to share this printer over a network with my Power Macintosh G4 (AGP Graphics), running OS 9.2.2. Appletalk is active, and file sharing works fine because both macs are networked with ethernet cords to a Linksys WRT54G wireless router. I have designated the LaserWriter 300 as a shared printer in the G3 chooser. Both macs have the LaserWriter 300 extension and Printer Share extension installed.
When I go to the G4, the shared printer icon appears in the list of printers available in the Chooser. I select it, and then try to print a document. A window pops up that says "spooling page 1", and it looks like it is working fine. Until suddently, a message pops up that says something like "you cannot print to this shared printer, please install the printer share extension and try again..." I'm confused, though, because I already have the printer share extension installed on both macs.
Thanks for any help anyone may have.

After a little experimentation, I found a workaround.
In the G4 (OS 9.2.2) Extensions Manager, I disabled the following items:
. USB Printer Sharing (Control Panel)
. USB Device Extension
. USB Printer Sharing Extension
Then I trashed the LaserWriter 300 desktop icon and restarted the computer. After restart, I went to the chooser and selected the LaserWriter 300 again so new icon appears on the desktop. Tried printing and it worked!
I tried a couple items to make sure this was consistent... SimpleText "read me" documents work fine. I can print from my browser too.
The only problem is with PDF files using Acrobat Reader... a message pops up on the G3 saying: "Not enough memory to print this document. Quit other applications and try printing again."
Also, not sure I want to permanently sacrifice turning off the USB printer sharing control panel/extensions listed above.

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According to the AppleSpec on the Personal LaserWriter 300, it is a serial-only printer, not an AppleTalk/Localtalk printer:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=112495
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I have not. If UkiSnuki checks back in they may have more details. They are creating a pdf file in OS X and then apparently printing in 9.2.2 on a dual G4.
My tendency would be to use WoodPlane's approach of using ethernet to get the file to an older Mac since I have more machines than sense. Ethernet solves so many problems that I just keep old Macs around as dedicated task machines on the LAN.
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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!!!
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thanks laura

Ask your friend for more help with which printer was plugged in with the adapter.
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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.
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I have an Intel iMac running OS X 10.4.11 and a motley band of other computers, Mac and Windows. For the past few months, I haven't been able to use Personal File Sharing or Printer Sharing to connect to the iMac. Some details:
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Post back for more details or notice of success finding a freecycle program near you. : )
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