LaserWriter 8.3.4 Unleashed

LaserWriter 8.3.4 Unleashed — Last week, Apple released LaserWriter 8.3.4, a version that has been anxiously awaited by many PCI Power Mac users who have been plagued with crashing problems when trying to print, particularly when using print spoolers or third-party printers, such as GCC’s XL 808. Although it remains to be seen whether this driver solves all such problems, early reports that I’ve seen have been encouraging. Although Apple recommends that anyone running a PCI Power Mac or running System 7.5.3 use the new version of the driver, it also says that people using older Macintoshes or system versions shouldn’t upgrade.

If you download and expand LaserWriter 8.3.4 , you’ll end up with a disk image, which you can use with the help of a utility such as DiskCopy or ShrinkWrap. The download consumes about 450K of disk space. [TJE]

<ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/ Apple.Software.Updates/US/Macintosh/ Printing/LaserWriter/LW_8.3.4.sea.hqx>

<ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/disk/shrink- wrap-201.hqx>