: New MBP doesnt like my old appletalk printer!


Jason H
Sep 13th, 2007, 01:27 AM
Hi Folks, I've got a laserwriter select 360 hooked up to my belkin router via an asante appletalk>ethernet adaptor. It works wirelessly with my iBook g4, but not with my new mac book pro.

Both have 10.4.10 on them, both have appletalk turned on for airport. No matter what I try the printer will not appear in the printer setup program. I had to print a document tonight and I had to dig up the iBook and enable printer sharing on it to print my stuff!

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Jason H
Sep 18th, 2007, 05:27 PM
Still cant figure out a way to get this to work? Any ideas?

Macfury
Sep 18th, 2007, 06:00 PM
Jason: You're sure that you have the driver installed on the MBP? It may have been a holdover from an old installation on your iBook.

Jason H
Sep 23rd, 2007, 07:19 PM
Jason: You're sure that you have the driver installed on the MBP? It may have been a holdover from an old installation on your iBook.

The driver must be there, its part of the essential system software package on OS X.

Any other ideas?

rgray
Sep 23rd, 2007, 07:46 PM
The driver must be there, its part of the essential system software package on OS X.
How so 'must be there'? I have a complete and completely vanilla OSX 10.4.10 on a 2gHz MBP 15" and both a Spotlight search and a manual combing through the Library folder finds NO reference to "Laserwriter" anywhere... I have certainly done nothing to remove any part of the OS install.

Have you searched the offending drive??

Jason H
Sep 24th, 2007, 12:50 AM
How so 'must be there'? I have a complete and completely vanilla OSX 10.4.10 on a 2gHz MBP 15" and both a Spotlight search and a manual combing through the Library folder finds NO reference to "Laserwriter" anywhere... I have certainly done nothing to remove any part of the OS install.

Have you searched the offending drive??

Did you try looking in /system/library/printers/PPDs/contents/resorces/en.lproj ?

I found LaserWriter Select 360.gz sitting right there.

Any other ideas? This one has really got me stumped.

Jason H
Sep 24th, 2007, 06:35 PM
Hopeful bump that can save me from buying a new printer.

Jason H
Sep 30th, 2007, 11:09 PM
last chance bump before the working laserwriter hits the garbage pile.