[X-Newbies] Re: Printer, Network?'s

[Randy B.Singer]

david_elmo said:

>I had a simpler problem a while back to get to use my local talk  
>apple printer on a Quicksilver running Tiger. And the solution for me  
>was to use it connected as usual to my old 7300 running 9 and an  
>ethernet cable between the 7300 and QS. The magic trick was some  
>software (yes!) called LocalTalk Bridge, downloadable from the Apple  
>site. I got help on this from macnetwork at mail.maclaunch.com and they  
>are likely to have archives and you can inspect the discussion.


That is another option.  You can use LocalTalk Bridge and put your old 
Mac on the network if it has both LocalTalk and Ethernet.  You can 
download the software from here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60290



Randy B. Singer
Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions)

Routine OS X Maintenance and Generic Troubleshooting
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