Use an old defunct ibook G3/500 that has a screen whose backlight flashes occasionally. This works as the print sharing box as well as serving other functions (I run Asterisk Voipon it).

Good luck and I think you can forget about the “select” sorry ;~<

Thanks for everyone’s help here.

Everything that I have read on the subject indicates that it simply won’t work when connected to a Time Capsule/Sase Station as a network printer. I tried it myself and No Go.

One possible problem is that your parallel-to-USB isn’t compatible for some reason. Some people try it with another brand of cable and it works.

Assuming that you have read all the above posts, you might try the Apple forum or Googling your question. An answer might turn up on another forum.

Good luck!

anyway, giving it an ip address from a c:a year 2000 macos 9.2 powerbook, i was able to connect my trusted year 1997 lw 12/640 (now with its whopping third cartridge) over the network in the house and print from that machine (using appletalk), one powerbook g4 running leopard and two macbook pros running snow leopard…still trying to get the thinkpad running windows xp in the kitchen to print to it, though

in short, thanks for this excellent write-up!

I’ve moved my network off of OS X Server for good. And this month I’ll be modifying the network settings of all the client machines and printers. Sigh.

I have no idea why it quit printing and no combination of printer driver/DIP switch setting would resurrect the printer…

Fortunately, just as I was beginning to think that I would have to throw in the towel I did one more Google search and discovered this thread on the Apple forum: http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2519106&tstart=120

So I downloaded USBTB (http://buymelunch.org/printing/usbtb/) and now my LaserWriter is back with the living!

FERNAND said:
“Just a little more information for whoever wants to follow this path, when you are in the Apple Printer Utility, select «Communication Configuration» tab, select «TCP/IP» tab, enter «192.168.1.150» in the box beside Printer’s IP Address and press the button «Set Defaults» at the top of the page.”

But Apple Printer Utility V2.2 (OS 9), when querying the 630, doesn’t have any tabs or TCP/IP options shown. There is a Printer’s Zone window in Communication Configuration saying “To select an EtherTalk Zone…” type it in – which now (OS 9 & Leopard) has a “*” in it (works great that way). This doesn’t seem an appropriate place to put a TCP address.

Would a parallel-EtherNet adaptor provide TCP addressing capability & printing?

And, its unclear a LWPro 630 even has TCP capability – there’s nothing about that in any manual, guide or on Apple’s site. So is it a big waste of time to try this approach? Ditto the Select 360. If so, what will work in the above LAN setup?

If we were to add an AirPort Extreme (A1143), would an EtherNet-USB or Parallel-USB adaptor plugged into that provide printer access to all our Macs?

Our LWPro 630 has only 15k pages used, max memory & suits our needs fine, so its not going to get tossed anytime soon. The Select 360 has even fewer pages on it.