10-19-2008, 01:40 PM
Mac,
See if you can get your hands on a Laserwriter IIg motherboard and an AAUI to ethernet adapter. Once you have those, you can swap the motherboards and throw the printer onto an ethernet network. The swap takes all of five minutes. The printer will be slow by current standards but definitely usable, even at 300 x 300 dpi.
We used one at my office for printing invoices from the late '90s until just a few years ago. I replaced the IIg with another used laserwriter. I forget the model number but used an Appletalk to ethernet box - an asante model - to throw it on the network. worked great for printing UPS labels.
Old and slow, sure, but definitely perfectly usable depending on the tasks required of it.
Robert
See if you can get your hands on a Laserwriter IIg motherboard and an AAUI to ethernet adapter. Once you have those, you can swap the motherboards and throw the printer onto an ethernet network. The swap takes all of five minutes. The printer will be slow by current standards but definitely usable, even at 300 x 300 dpi.
We used one at my office for printing invoices from the late '90s until just a few years ago. I replaced the IIg with another used laserwriter. I forget the model number but used an Appletalk to ethernet box - an asante model - to throw it on the network. worked great for printing UPS labels.
Old and slow, sure, but definitely perfectly usable depending on the tasks required of it.
Robert