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.

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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.
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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.
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Tom,
This solution may be totally unworkable for you, but then again...
You say "The printer is old, but it works well and it's a postscript laser, which would be pricey to replace."
I just came home from the Washington State University surplus store auction. There were two LW 360s on the store shelves for over a year. Price? $35.00 a piece. Whay didn't I buy them? Because they were also selling LW 16/600 network capable printers for $25.00. I quit at ten - figured two per bedroom was enough. : )
So what about the 360s? They were finally put into a batch of printers to be auctioned off, including a Textronix Phaser color printer. Winning bid was $2.50 - I did not bid against the guy, I just asked what he was interested in. All he wanted was a box of ADB mice to sell on eBay for $5 a piece. Price of the 360 printers, Phaser laser and 50 ADB keyboards was free if I would haul the rest of his two pallets off for him.
Moral is, for over a year everyone had the chance to buy those printers for $35. Chicago is a big enough town to have one or two university surplus options and maybe even a recycling center. If you like your 320, look for another. Then when one decides to quit some day, the toner cartridge will move right over to the other one and keep on printing.
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