Print to Imagewriter II from Intel MacBook Pro, Quicken, Leopard OS 10.5

What will it take to print to an Imagewriter II dot-matrix printer from a 2007 MacBook Pro 2.2 (OS 10.5.2, Quicken 2007)?
I'd like to still use my pin-fed checks.
I'm trying to move my accounting and check printing from an old, but still workable, Mac SE/30 system (OS 7, Quicken 7). Ain't those old machines great!!!!!
Will I need a Print Driver?
How will I connect?
(I have lots of other older Macs around: Tangerine iMac, original PowerBook.
I have a LAN over a Belkin router.
Don't have a LocalTalk option card or a Farallon AppleTalk-over-Ethernet to Appletalk/LocalTalk converter, but maybe could get?)
Thanks for your input!
--PSMacintosh

I'm a bit confused here.
Let's see if I understand correctly.
Method One:
If I buy and install a USB-to-Serial Adapter and plug it into my MBP's USB port, then I can serial cable directly from the Imagewriter II to the MBP and print.
I have to load the drivers for the USB-to-Serial Adapter.
I have to load the foomatic and GPL Ghostwriter drivers to convert Quicken 2007's postscript print format to Imagewriter's format (appletalk? localtalk?).
I don't have to have an Appletalk/Localtalk card in the Imagewriter.
Method Two (install an Appletalk/Localtalk card in the Imagewriter, then connect somehow (via ethernet) to my network):
I tried to find the card on eBay, but couldn't find it with any search words that I used. What are the right words?
Do I understand correctly that I need:
a AppleTalk/LocalTalk option card that will install inside of the Imagewriter II?
will connect into a slot inside the Imagewriter II?
and will have an ethernet port on it?
Then I'll need to connect an ethernet cable from the card port to either my computer directly (disconnect its ethernet network cable and use its ethernet port) or connect to the network router via ethernet?
(I do have a 34 Express Card slot on the MBP, so maybe I could buy an Express Card that has an ethernet port and connect to the MBP, rather than the network router?)
ALTERNATIVE-- Method Three:
I do have an Original Powerbook (Family: M3553), running OS 9 and not having Quicken 2007 Mac, which has a Serial Port on it (I'm pretty sure that its printer port interface is serial) and is connected by ethernet to the network router.
So, if I serial cable from the Imagewriter to the Powerbook, turn on the PowerBook to connect to the network, then could I print to the Imagewriter from my MBPro?
I'd have to "see" the printer on my MBP. Or I'd have to drop the print file into the PowerBook's Drop Box and then print it from the PB.
But there's still a problem here because the GPL Ghostwriter from your reference only runs on OS 10s, and not OS 9s.
But maybe that's not a problem because I don't have to install it on the PowerBook with OS 9, but rather on the MBP.
So, if I install the foomatic and GPL Ghostwriter on the MBP, then it converts the print file (from postscript to appletalk??), then I send the print file to the PowerBook and then to the Imagewriter, I guess that should work?

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