Apple Personal Laserwriter 300

[cwagaman]

I have a PPC 9500 using OS 9.1 and am trying to figure out how to get the computer to recognize my old Apple laserwriter 300. My old computer (Centris 660) running OS 8.5 recognized and printed to it but the 9500 does not. I have an icon in the chooser for the 300 and have the printer plugged into the printer port, but whenever I try to print the print monitor tries to identify the printer before alerting me there is a printing problem. Have tried switching to the modem port but that doesn't work either. Read that the 300 is not a postscript printer and uses Quick Draw instead. Not sure if OS 9 doesn't support the older printer types. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Bob73]

Sounds like you have a G3 or G4 card in your computer. If this is the case, turn on virtual memory and all should be fine.

[suni]

I am having a 300 problem, too, I want to use my old 300 with my new G4. I have talked to
Apple, and they couldn't help. I am still hoping that my computer and my old printer can be pals.

[jmnw]

I also have a G4 + Laserwriter 300. My issue is resolved, however, since a couple of years back, my 300 decided to have its little rubber foot (that pulls up the next sheet of paper) permanently down, always giving me a paper feed/jam error. It is still here, unplugged and unused.
I am currently researching the latest greatest (but yet, most affordable - a real trick) color laser printer that can do photos. Good luck to me....
Sorry I couldn't help with the compatibility issue. See what happens with the v.memory as Bob suggested.

[rod]

i have a perfertly functioning personal laserwriter 320 that I am trying to get my pc to recognize. i have windows Me. any suggestions on how to make this work?
Are there adapters that will connect an apple serial port to the parallel or USB port?
i would appreciate any help/
thanks

[Julie]

I have the same question as Rod - can the old Laserwriter 300 be hooked up to a modern-day PC? Is there an adapter cable to convert the round Apple cable to a PC's USB port or serial port? The Laserwriter is such a nice printer that it would be unfortunate if it were now defunct just because the cables and ports have changed...

[Mikef]

Dunno about driving an Apple laserwriter from Windows, but you can get adaptors that convert the mini-DIN to RJ45 allowing the printer to connect directly to a network and so be accessable to all Macs on the network. I spose if you had a shiney new Mac without a network you could use a network cross-over cable to connect to the adaptor. Bear in mind that the ones that I've used only work on 10Mb networks, there may be others out there that work on 10/100 and 100 networks.

Mike