[rescue] Somewhat desparate... need to re-rescue a printer

[Andrew Weiss]

I have been working with my old Laserjet III jalopy for the last few 
days trying thing after thing to get the beastie to print from the Mac 
on OS X.  I recently revived my JetDirect XIO card from the closet and 
got it to configure using Bootp on my Sparc LX so it has an IP and all 
the goodies set by tftp.  I could print directly to the port raw via 
Windows 2000, but nowhere else including the Sparc.  I finally figured 
out that the interface script was postscript not net_lj3plus (the script 
itself not the printer) which was for the old 339xx cartridges which is 
what I have so I get lp working on the Sun, and also LPR from the Win 2K 
box as well.  The Macintosh running Classic also likes it in LPR mode... 
well I've spent two days working on getting Print Center to work with it 
in LPR mode... turns out (it starts flashing and then stops without 
printing)  OS X only prints using PS Level 2.  Well I find out that I 
should have gotten the Postscript Plus cartridge...  does anyone have 
one of these they aren't using... every place on the Internet wants to 
gouge the crap out of me for it.  I only paid $189 for the printer in 
totally new condition a year ago on e-bay.  I am also unemployed so I'm 
not trying to spend too much.  Also does anyone have the 4MB Board for 
it as well.  I have a 2MB board from a IIP that came with the thing, and 
although it works fine, this is not listed as a supported configuration.

Thanks,
Andrew