joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) (02/13/86)
I have the following set up: Mac----100' appletalk cable----LW --- IBM AT The LW spends much of the day in "Special" (diablo emulation) mode, and every so often I reward it by flicking the switch to "AppleTalk". However, the printer isn't there most of the time! I put up Choose Printer, and ... nothing! I toggle the "AppleTalk" setting on C.P. a few times, and still, no report of any LaserWriters. I can power the printer off and on but still no report of a printer on the net--sometimes it works the 1st time, other times it takes 15 minutes. Questions: 1. Does anyone else have this phantomness on the net problem? 2. Is there any DA I can write to try to encourage all available printers to respond now? (I have inside LW, but haven't read it...) I.e., what is necessary to call all printers and see if one is alive. 3. Once I have the LW's attention, is there anything I can do to improve it's responsiveness, such as using PostScript to increase the frequency at which it announces "I'm here". Any other pointers would be most appreciated. -- Joel West (619) 457-9681 CACI, Inc. Federal, 3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct., La Jolla, CA 92037 {cbosgd,ihnp4,pyramid,sdcsvax,ucla-cs}!gould9!joel gould9!joel@nosc.ARPA
olson@harvard.UUCP (Eric Olson) (02/14/86)
In article <318@gould9.UUCP> joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) writes: >I have the following set up: > Mac----100' appletalk cable----LW --- IBM AT >The LW spends much of the day in "Special" (diablo emulation) >mode, and every so often I reward it by flicking the switch >to "AppleTalk". > >However, the printer isn't there most of the time! I put up Choose >Printer, and ... nothing! I toggle the "AppleTalk" setting on C.P. >a few times, and still, no report of any LaserWriters. The laserwriter's DB9 and DB25 connectors are permanently hardwired together-- changing the switch setting does not switch connectors. So, if the AT is on, it is stomping on the appletalk. Remove the AT cable for the laserwriter to work. -Eric