Imagewriter II OS9

How do I get Imagewriter to show up in the finder.

I assume you mean the Chooser, not the Finder — yes? Is the ImageWriter driver installed in your Extensions folder? If not, copy it from one of the Macs that works properly with the IW. After the driver is installed, restart the Mac and open the Chooser. You should then be able to select the ImageWriter driver in the left pane and the port the IW is connected to in the right pane, and print.

eww is right and that should be all there is to it… but do your other, working Macs use the same USB-Serial adapter, please?

Those things don't all meet the same specs, and even if they're theoretically identical, this one could simply be faulty…

Hi, T S1 and Robbie. I don't believe the adapter or, for that matter, the printer itself even enters the troubleshooting equation yet. It is normally possible to select a printer driver in the chooser for a printer one doesn't even have available, as long as the driver extension for that printer is correctly installed and not corrupt. Years ago I used to do so all the time, selecting the LaserWriter driver when I wanted to format a document to print correctly on a LaserWriter at a service bureau (before I had a laser printer of my own).

Therefore, I have to wonder whether the driver is correctly installed. If it was copied from a Mac on which the IW works properly, then it isn't corrupt. T S1, make sure the iW driver is in your Extensions folder and that it's enabled in the Extensions Manager. Rebuild your desktop to make sure it's correctly identified by the Finder, and run Disk First Aid to make sure your hard drive directory is in good order. Then restart and test again to see whether the IW driver appears in the left pane of the Chooser. Until it does, the printer and the adapter themselves are irrelevancies.

T S1...

I would compare your Extension sets to see if there is something missing from within your configuration.

These come to mind but maybe incomplete;

*AppleTalk
*PrintingLib
*PrintMonitor
*Serial Tool
*SerialShimLib
*Serial (anything?)
*USB (adapters?)

...Ron

Message was edited by: Ron JACKLE

Please note that in the Serial and USB Extension arena, there may be a possible of some conflict of which may not show a hard error, but rather cancels the ability to allow an item to be used. I prefer to call that an "Extensions Cancellation" rather than a conflict.

Excellent… thanks for reporting back!