[X4U] usb printer link - good but not perfect

[Jan Melichar]

I connected my old LaserWriter Select 360 to a colleagues G4 so she  
would have a printer handy by her side and to relive the queue for  
other printers. This meant using a USB to serial cable. After  
selecting the printer in system preference connection was made and  
the printer worked straight away. Unfortunately now it works  
sometimes but at other times - quite arbitrarily as far as I can tell  
and in any application - the 'job stops'.  It can of course be  
restarted so printing can continue but as you can imagine it can be  
irritating especially when doing a lot of printing.
Can anyone throw any light on this oddity.

Jan