Using a ColorStyleWriter2500 with an LC2

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I'm wondering if it's possible to use a ColorStyleWriter2500 with an old Mac LCII? Besides the age difference between the units, I have other logistical problems that worry me; for instance, I found a driver for the printer, but the only way for me to download it is on my PC(which I'm on now), and even IF I could get it Transferred to the Mac, it's a 2.5M file(and that's in a Stuff'd format), which would make it too big to fit on a floppy. If I were just working with PCs, I'd use PKZIP & make a Multi-Disk Spanned Zip file out of it, but with the Mac, ?? I had some other concern I was going to ask you about regarding getting this printer to work with my MAC, but I forgot what it was! Oh well, it'll come to me....

Anyway, my old Mac LC II has System 7.5, about 8M of memory, and sadly only about 6M left on its 80M HD.

Any assistance you could offer conerning this matter would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Kirk G.
 
I had that set up a few years ago!!

I don't remember needing to install a driver. Have you just tried connecting it and seeing if it appears in the Chooser?

If not it may work if you choose an Apple printer. Around that time the Apple printers were rebadged/slightly altered Canon printers.
 
MAC LC II said:
I'm wondering if it's possible to use a ColorStyleWriter2500 with an old Mac LCII? Besides the age difference between the units, I have other logistical problems that worry me; for instance, I found a driver for the printer, but the only way for me to download it is on my PC(which I'm on now), and even IF I could get it Transferred to the Mac, it's a 2.5M file(and that's in a Stuff'd format), which would make it too big to fit on a floppy. If I were just working with PCs, I'd use PKZIP & make a Multi-Disk Spanned Zip file out of it, but with the Mac, ?? I had some other concern I was going to ask you about regarding getting this printer to work with my MAC, but I forgot what it was! Oh well, it'll come to me....

Anyway, my old Mac LC II has System 7.5, about 8M of memory, and sadly only about 6M left on its 80M HD.

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Kirk G.
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You don't have the proper driver preinstalled? Oh, well. You cannot make an omelet without breaking some eggs. With only 6 MB on your HD, you are tightly constrained. You need to free-up some capacity. Archive the files that you need. Let the others go. You don't have to decompress your downloads on the same computer used to get the downloads. Search AOL, Compuserve, or possibly Info-Mac for the System 7 version of PK-ZIP, ZipIt, or some other Mac Zip utility. Without a list of the available peripherals at your disposal, this is about the best that I can do for you.
 
Thought I answered this identical question just a couple of weeks ago.
There's 2 forms for the installer files for the Color StyleWriter 2500 printer, both available at this web page - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30153
One called a net-install, which is your 2.5MB file, and the other is a 4-part install, which downloads to 4 .sea files, which are used to create the floppy disks for the installer set.
Your problem would be how to get those files to the Mac, as you likely won't be able to create Mac floppies on the PC. You SHOULD be able to copy each separate .sea file to a floppy. Then copy those to the Mac HD (which should read those DOS disks) then create floppies on the Mac, and then install the printer drivers. (phew!) Good luck on all those transfers....
The LC II is older than the StyleWriter 2500 (as well as System 7.5, which does not have the 2500 as part of the install, also older than the 2500)
 
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