[comp.sys.mac.hardware] AppleTalk ImageWriter Problem

a544@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) (12/10/90)

In an article, luis@seas.ucla.ede writes:
I am having  problems with an ImageWriter ussing AppleTalk.
  This is the configuration.

  1 Mac SE 4 Meg 40 Meg HD  ruuning 6.03
  1 Mac Classic 2 Meg 40Meg HD running 6.07
  1 ImageWriter
  1 PhonNet Connetor per device
  The cables are just 6 feet long.
  Have 2 connectors terminated (One for computer)
   terminated-computer -- ImageWriter -- computer-terminated

This is the problem

 When I start the computers the printer goes crazy.(It just starts
printing
 junk) When I go to the chooser the printer goes crazy again. I choose
 appleTalk ImageWriter but no printer comes up.
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I experienced the same problems until I used Init (cdev) to disable the
MacJanet stuff I needed for the lab.  Once I disabled MacJanet, the
ImageWriter worked fine.  So, perhaps you have some network stuff
lurking in your system folder that assumes its job it to establish
contact with the outer world through the port to which your ImageWriter
is connected?
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