I'm trying to use an Apple Personal Laserwriter with an Apple IIgs system. I have no problems with an ImageWriter II and the IIgs. My current connection is using a printer cable from the Laserwriter to the printer port on the IIgs. My understanding is you need to use Appletalk with the Laserwriter, but I've not found any documentation on how to accomplish this. First, is it even possible to use an LW with a IIgs, and if so, is there any step-by-step instructions? The IIgs I'm using has an Apple SCSI II card in it with a 105MB HD attached. I'm running GS/OS 6.0.1. -- Remove no_spam_ from my email address "Doug Anderson" wrote in message news:2005021619571416807%dougcpa@nospammaccom... : I'm trying to use an Apple Personal Laserwriter with an Apple IIgs : system. I have no problems with an ImageWriter II and the IIgs. : : My current connection is using a printer cable from the Laserwriter to : the printer port on the IIgs. My understanding is you need to use : Appletalk with the Laserwriter, but I've not found any documentation on : how to accomplish this. : : First, is it even possible to use an LW with a IIgs, and if so, is : there any step-by-step instructions? : : The IIgs I'm using has an Apple SCSI II card in it with a 105MB HD : attached. I'm running GS/OS 6.0.1. I'm not 100% sure, but the Harmonie drivers might include drivers for that printer. HP settings are also recommended if I'm not mistaken. I don't believe AppleTalk is necessary for a single stand-alone application, which is what you are describing. You can get the Harmonie drivers from sources online, but I am not aware of the links offhand. Good Luck. Apple II Forever, Apple II Together Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com Email - willy46pa@comcast.net Have you tried anything? Any interesting results? Can you tell us what you've tried? Also, there were several Personal Laserwriter models. Is there a suffix ("LS", "NT", "NTR", ?) or number (300, 320)? http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.legacy/laser.html lists the various models. The Personal LaserWriter line were generally (but not all) crippled by the use of QuickDraw instead of Postscript. According to this link http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=7652 the IIgs did not support the QuickDraw models. There are other articles on the legacy support information at Apple http://search.info.apple.com/?as_q=IIgs+Laserwriter&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&btnG=Search&lr=lang_en&kword=&type=&docset=alldocs&Submit=Search Note that the search tool is a little flaky: takes some effort to get it to show more than ten results at a time, and the "next page" links usually screw things up. Check the pull-down on the right to ask for 50 results on a page, and you should see most of the documents.