[X4U] Interfacing Airport Extreme and Apple Laserwriter 8500

Jim Hurley jhurley at infostations.com
Fri Nov 11 06:10:08 PST 2005


>On Thursday, November 10, 2005, at 11:06AM, Jim Hurley 
><jhurley at infostations.com> wrote:
>
>>I know Airport Extreme will interface with USB printers, but can it
>>interface with the Apple Laserwriter 8500; it has an Ethernet port
>  >but no USB port.
>
>Robert Ashton wrote:
>
>Connect the printer to the Ethernet LAN port on the base station.
>Open AirPort Admin Utility.
>Select the base station and click Configure, then click Network.
>Deselect the "Distribute IP addresses" checkbox.
>hope that this helps. Bob

Thanks Wayne and Robert.

Good info. Hate to give up my 8500. It has been a workhorse.

Jim



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