{"id":1897,"date":"2009-09-04T03:10:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T08:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:40:21","slug":"appletalk-not-available-in-snow-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/1897-appletalk-not-available-in-snow-leopard\/","title":{"rendered":"Use your AppleTalk printer with Snow Leopard &#8211; UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1898\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1898  \" title=\"3SI\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3SI.gif\" alt=\"Quick tip - Use a mac running 10.5 or 10.4, select to share the Printer that is AppleTalk and volia - your AppleTalk printers now useable to any Mac with 10.6\" width=\"285\" height=\"252\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quick tip - Use a mac running 10.5 or 10.4, select to share the Printer that is AppleTalk and volia - your AppleTalk printer is now useable to any Mac with 10.6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is true that Apple has dropped the AppleTalk LAN protocols as part of the trimming done in 10.6 Snow Leopard. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean its time to throw out that legacy LaserJet printer that had its printer queue setup through AppleTalk. \u00a0You could setup a print server.<\/p>\n<p>If you have at least one Mac still running 10.5 or earlier on your network, you can setup your AppleTalk printer on that machine and share that printer with the other computers on your Network. 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If you&#8217;re like me, a picture (or in this case several screen shots) is worth a thousand words&#8230;or at least three paragraphs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is true that Apple has dropped the AppleTalk LAN protocols as part of the trimming done in 10.6 Snow Leopard. \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean its time to throw out that legacy LaserJet printer that had its printer queue setup through AppleTalk. \u00a0You could setup a print server. 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