I recently purchased a USB to parallel printer cable to connect my LaserWriter Select 360 to my iMac, using the LaserWriter's parallel port and one of the iMac's USB ports. No Mac drivers were provided for the cable on the CD which came with it, so I presumed the cable was "plug and play" with Macs, since it says it is Mac compatible. However, once everything was plugged in and switched on, I tried to locate the printer in the Chooser. When I select "LaserWriter 8", my printer does not show up on the right hand side of the Chooser. I am using Mac OS 9.1, so the LaserWriter 8 driver is a recent version. I have tried other ways of locating it, but have had no success. I have set the printer to mode 6 which should allow parallel Postscript printing. I checked for the cable in Apple System Profiler, and it shows up as a USB device, so it is obviously connected correctly. Is there any way of solving this problem? I tried contacting the company that I bought the cable from, but it didn't really help. What I really need is a USB to parallel driver ( for Mac OS 9) that will allow me to use the LaserWriter through USB. Any help would be much appreciated. %00

you may have to use usb to apple talk adapter and use the apple talk port on the printer instead, or you may have to setup the printer to use the parallel port instead of the apple talk port, I believe that it has a switch on the back of the printer for set up, read the printer manual.

check out this site. http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_FAQ_OS_X.php3 this scenario seems to be very OS, cable brand and printer brand/model specific!