[WinMac] Re: WinMac Digest #222 - 02/09/99
John W. McCarthy(jwmcmac[at]flash.net)
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 02:03:31 -0600
Geoff,
Sorry about the bad advice a minute ago. I just noticed that you are
printing to a networked LAN printer which means it must already be
working for everyone else and so there can be no cable problems.
I don't know what I was thinking . . . well, yes I do really . . . but
that's what you are supposed to say when you make a big one, right?
The only thing I can say is that hardware is usually the last thing I
check and in some instance should be the first. It's cause I'm used to
Macs -- which rarely have hardware probs . . . true, but ha! ha! anyway.
>
> Geoff,
>
> Depending on the error messages when you are trying to print, and before
> doing anything else, check the printer (or network?) cable.
>
> Heck, a bad printer cable cannot be repaired by software.
>
> Short of that, tell the list more specifics, such as the error messages,
> the procedures you are following, the network and printer setup, etc. . ..
>
> When our LaserWriterII-NT would not print, we tried everything to no
> avail . . . it was the cable. The clue was that when we selected the
> LaserWriter 8.1 printer driver in the chooser we would not see any
> Postscript Printer Description (PPD) to select in the appletalk/network
> (?) window (I'm not sure about the terminology here). Apparently, the
> Chooser had to communicate with the printer in order for any PPD's to
> show up in the first place. Clues are good if you recognize them. Took
> us a while.
>
> Hope you get it running.
>
> GODBlessUsAll
>
> Pat Kelly McCarthy
>
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