Laser printer hangs Mac 9500

[weymest]

I bought an as-new but obsolescent Samsung 1210 laser printer for a friend to use with her even more obsolescent Mac 9500 running Mac OS 8.5.1. The connecting medium is a parallel cable.

I did 2 things contrary to the instructions:

(1) connected the printer to the computer with both of them switched on.

(2) Installed the printer driver from the supplied CD without quitting the Netscape browser/mailer software which was running.

The printer did appear in the LH panel of the Chooser, but would not appear in the RH panel.

Attempting to print a trial document produced the error message 'The Samsung 1210 printer is busy'.

I then switched both devices off, removed and replaced the cable. On switching on the computer again, after the introductory startup screens, booting halted and the computer screen went blank so that to switch it off I had to unplug the power.

Disconnecting the parallel cable allowed bootup to proceed normally.

The Samsung packaging labels quoted system requirement as OS 8.6 or later. The driver software documentation quoted 8.0 or later. Could upgrading from OS 8.5.1 to 8.6 cure it? Any experience of installing a parallel cable causing a machine to hang? Best source for a 8.6 updater?

 

[MisterMe]

Talk about leaving out essential informaton! Macs, including your Power Mac 9500, do not ship with parallel ports. There are, however, third-party parallel-port adapters with requisite drivers. It seems quite clear that you have yet to establish communication between your printer and computer. How are you attempting to connect the two?

Another thing. Your computer will run MacOS 9.1. I strongly suggest that you update to this OS. Your computer will then be able to run Classic-compatible apps. This will make it a lot easier to acquire MacOS 9 apps for most of your computing needs.