<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Happy New Year to you all<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am not a resident of Des Moines but joined your MUG to look at an article that Google spotted for me. I am needing some help with a printing problem that I have and there are not many folk nearby that I can ask about it. I hope that someone among you can give me some insights.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am running Tiger (10.4.3) and would like to print to my trusty old StyleWriter (1500), which is on the (Ethernet) network thanks to an AppleTalk Adapter (M4877). I can print to it from our Titanium (running Jaguar) by using Classic (and Acrobat Reader 4) but have so far failed to get it set up on Mac OS X.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have installed GhostScript and Gimp-Print and have a PPD for the printer (Apple-Color_StyleWriter_1500-lpstyl.ppd) I cannot even get a good response from Terminal. Here are some things that I have tried:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>[Andy:~] andy% sudo at_cho_prn StyleWriter1200AT</DIV><DIV>Zone:*???</DIV><DIV>ITEM NET-ADDR OBJECT : TYPE</DIV><DIV> 1: ff00.01.81 sw:StyleWriter1200AT</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>ITEM number (0 to make no selection)?1</DIV><DIV>Bus error</DIV><DIV>[Andy:~] andy% atlookup</DIV><DIV>Found 4 entries in zone *</DIV><DIV>ffc7.cd.80 Titanium:Darwin</DIV><DIV>ff00.01.81 sw:StyleWriter1200AT</DIV><DIV>ff00.80.fb Jo?s Titanium:PPCToolBox</DIV><DIV>ff00.80.04 Jo?s Titanium:Workstation</DIV><DIV>[Andy:~] andy% atstatus sw:StyleWriter1200AT</DIV><DIV>ATPsndreq: Operation timed out</DIV><DIV>status for 'sw:StyleWriter1200AT' failed</DIV><DIV>[Andy:~] andy% atprint sw:StyleWriter1200AT</DIV><DIV>Looking for sw:StyleWriter1200AT.</DIV><DIV>Trying to connect to sw:StyleWriter1200AT@*.</DIV><DIV>ATPsndreq: Operation timed out</DIV><DIV>[Andy:~] andy% appleping ff00.01.81</DIV><DIV>Pinging ff00.01.81: 64 data bytes</DIV><DIV>64 bytes from ff00.01.04: hop= 0, time= 27. ms</DIV><DIV>64 bytes from ff00.01.04: hop= 0, time= 7. ms</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It seems as if AppleTalk knows about the printer and I can ApplePing it without a problem but I cannot set it up as the default printer or atprint to it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have also tried various forms of address in Printer Setup Utility but to no avail. The errors have been various, the latest being <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><I>"The process "pap" stopped unexpectedly with status 255".</I></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Skia; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font-family: Skia; font-size: 12px; "><FONT face="Skia" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Skia; font-family: Skia; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Skia; font-size: 12px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Skia; font-size: 12px; ">Andy Maybury</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font-family: Skia; font-size: 12px; "><FONT face="Skia" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Skia; font-family: Skia; font-size: 12px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-tab"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Skia; font-size: 12px; "> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Skia; font-size: 12px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Skia; font-size: 12px; ">Arua, Uganda</SPAN></FONT></P></SPAN><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>