[WinMac] Re: macs without Appletalk

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 22:52:32 -0500

        Actually, Alex nailed a stability weak point with the MacOS; Desktop
Printing. In general, I trash the three Desktop Printing Extensions for the
sake of stability. System 7.1's Print Monitor worked well for many years...

At 10:09 PM 1/11/99 -0500, Alex wrote:
>>Also, you don't necessarily need unencapsulated appletalk for the
>>printer. You can either a) set up a print server that accepts IP printing
>>(such as NetAtalk or ASIP), or you can print directly to an IP capable
>>printer. Then you can manage without using AppleTalk on the Network ->
>>set all the computers to use the Printer Port for AppleTalk, and then
>>there's no appletalk packets on the network (or, with 8.5, set it to
>>"remote only").
>
>Or you could also setup Laserwriter 8.5 and up to a (as a) TCP/IP only
>printer with the new desktop printer utility. You could actually turn
>Appletalk off in your Mac and it will still print via TCP/IP. The only
>donwside to this is you HAVE to use Desktop printing which causes a lot
>of problems in my experience.
>
>Alex Dearden
>pata@doglover.com

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