[X-Apps] Appltalk - Printing?

Skip vze2rwkt at verizon.net
Fri Oct 24 12:46:02 PDT 2003


Skip, if you are using OS 9, go to Apple Menu/Control Panel/Appletalk 
and make sure that the port specified for Appletalk is NOT the Printer 
port.

Did that.

Under the Appletalk options are the following only: (printer port 
doesn't even show up)

Remote Only
Infrared Port (irda)
Ethernet

Skip

Donna dm87 wrote:

> Skip wrote:
>
>> Check the modem and it looked fine, as did TCP/IP. I went in to the 
>> extensions manager and turned both off, and still no luck?
>>
>> Should I try ungrading to 9.2?
>>
>> Skip
>>
>> Mike Warren wrote:
>>
>
>>> On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 08:23  AM, Skip wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a iMac 350 that has an Epson 740 printer hooked to it. The 
>>>> problem is, whenever I try to select this printer in the chooser 
>>>> window, I get an error message saying "You can't do this, because 
>>>> AppleTalk is currently in use by another application, or not turned 
>>>> on… neither of which is true?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I remember this happening frequently with pre X systems. I thought 
>>> the trick was to turn off AppleTalk but looking at your error 
>>> message I guess my memory is faulty. Anyway, it's worth a try 
>>> unless, of course, you have an AppleTalk network. Also, check the 
>>> modem settings to see which ports it is assigned to, maybe there's a 
>>> conflict there.
>>>
>>>
>>
> Skip, if you are using OS 9, go to Apple Menu/Control Panel/Appletalk 
> and make sure that the port specified for Appletalk is NOT the Printer 
> port.
>
> Donna dm87
>
>
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