[comp.sys.mac.hardware] flaky laserwriter

judge@work.berkeley.edu (Thomas Judge) (07/18/90)

we have a LWNT that has both a line coming in to it from 
a mainframe and an appletalk connector with the office macs on it.
To flip between the two we have to toggle a dip switch in the back.
Now, every once in a while when we flip it to the dean line the front green
light starts blinking and it will refuse to print any documents from the 
mainframe; we have to switch it to mac, print a mac page, 
and then switch it back.
Does anyone have any guesses as to why this occurs? Is it a postscript prep
file that its looking for? Is it confused about network stuff? And, is
there anything one can do to alleviate this strange condition?

Thanks,
thomas