Need Help with Apple Laserwriter 360

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Is there a way to reset the printer? I turned off the printer in the
middle of a job it was having trouble doing. Now, all I get is line
after line and page after page of meaningless garble (for instance ; :
1629 0 1575 6375 rc 0 0 0 sco F0_100). I've tried unplugging for a
day -- both the power and data cables -- and nothing works. Is it
time for the scrap heap?

Thanks.
 
j-man said:
Is there a way to reset the printer? I turned off the printer in the
middle of a job it was having trouble doing. Now, all I get is line
after line and page after page of meaningless garble (for instance ; :
1629 0 1575 6375 rc 0 0 0 sco F0_100). I've tried unplugging for a
day -- both the power and data cables -- and nothing works. Is it
time for the scrap heap?
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The printer is probably fine. That's PostScript code still coming from
the computer. When you switched the printer off in the middle of a job,
it forgot that the incoming job was PostScript. Now it seems to think
that the incoming PostScript is text instead of a PostScript program to
be executed. HP printers set to auto-detect page description languages
do this the same way.

You need to clear out the rest of the job in the print queue. How to do
that is dependent on the computer and operating system doing the
printing. Brute-force, you can keep pressing the printer's Cancel Job
or Reset button--if it has one--until it stops. The worst way to do it
is to keep turning the printer on and off, which is bad for the printer,
but clears the buffer each time. But it's better than throwing the
printer away.
 
Is there a way to reset the printer? I turned off the printer in the
middle of a job it was having trouble doing. Now, all I get is line
after line and page after page of meaningless garble (for instance ; :
1629 0 1575 6375 rc 0 0 0 sco F0_100). I've tried unplugging for a
day -- both the power and data cables -- and nothing works. Is it
time for the scrap heap?

Thanks.
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It seems that you have installed the Darl McBride SCO FUD driver
reknowned for producing page after page of meaningless garbled output.

It's probably best to scrap it. Best scrap the machine too - after all
once anything related to SCO has touched it, anything you've done with
it is surely a derived work and is therefore no longer owned by you.
Even the garbled output. Best shred it. And better burn it, before
someone accidentally recycles it into something.

Somebody tried unplugging SCO for several days, but that had no
effect. It seems that nothing works.
 
Is there a way to reset the printer? I turned off the printer in the
middle of a job it was having trouble doing. Now, all I get is line
after line and page after page of meaningless garble (for instance ; :
1629 0 1575 6375 rc 0 0 0 sco F0_100). I've tried unplugging for a
day -- both the power and data cables -- and nothing works. Is it
time for the scrap heap?

Thanks.
Click to expand...

It seems that you have installed the Darl McBride SCO FUD driver
reknowned for producing page after page of meaningless garbled output.

It's probably best to scrap it. Best scrap the machine too - after all
once anything related to SCO has touched it, anything you've done with
it is surely a derived work and is therefore no longer owned by you.
Even the garbled output. Best shred it. And better burn it, before
someone accidentally recycles it into something.

Somebody tried unplugging SCO for several days, but that had no
effect. It seems that nothing works.
 
Thanks. I kept the data cable unplugged for the whole weekend and now
things work again. Guess it's not time yet to part with this printer
(though I did start shopping for a new one just in case). I
appreciate your help.
 
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