Difference between Appletalk and Bonjour for printers and network?

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Difference between Appletalk and Bonjour for printers and network?

We have a lot of printers on our Ethernet network and some printers appear in both Appletalk and Bonjour. What exactly is the difference? Do I still need Appletalk with a G5 running Leopard.
Appletalk is very old, isn't?

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G5, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Oct 3, 2008 10:25 AM

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Kappy

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Oct 3, 2008 11:29 AM in response to pitou

Unless you actually have printers that only work with AppleTalk, then turn it off as it's not necessary. AppleTalk is present only for compatibility with older systems and printers that supported only AppleTalk. Contemporary hardware do not use AppleTalk so it's unnecessary and you can disable it.

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