Printing on a LaserWriter IISC from Windows 3.1

[Monica M. Rudzik]

I have a Dell Netplex 433/P, using Windows 3.1, which I would like to
get to print on a LaserWriter IISC. I was told that a driver is all I
need, but I don't know where to get one. Any information would be
appreciated. Thanks.
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Frank H. Zambrano
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA
f-zam...@nwu.edu

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[physgrad]

Monica M. Rudzik wrote:
>
> I have a Dell Netplex 433/P, using Windows 3.1, which I would like to
> get to print on a LaserWriter IISC. I was told that a driver is all I
> need, but I don't know where to get one. Any information would be
> appreciated. Thanks.
> --
>
> Frank H. Zambrano
> Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA
> f-zam...@nwu.edu

Frank -- I believe you were given the wrong information.

While you are able to get Win3.1/95 drivers for almost all LaserWriters
by going to

http://support.info.apple.com/ftp/swhome.html

and following DOS-Windows -> Printing

you would find that all of the available drivers are PostScript drivers.
The IISC was a QuickDraw printer. This means that you'll need a Win 3.1
driver that renders using the Quickdraw imaging model instead. It's
doubtful that such a driver exists.

If you look in the back of MacWorld magazine, you'll find a lot of
refurbished/used parts houses. You might be able to find a II NT/NTX
board to put in the SC, get a cable, and then you could pick up the
driver from Apple support and have a PostScript printer instead. But...I
wouldn't pay very much for the board as refurbished NTs are going for
$199, or less.

If you have more questions while you're figuring out what to do, go to
the appropriate newsgroup where you'll find people familiar with
cross-platform/interfacing issues. In this case, I used
http://www.dejanews.com/home_if.shtml and entered both 'windows' and
'laserwriter' as search terms. This revealed,

news:comp.periphs.printers
news:comp.sys.mac.printing

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