How Can I turn off the Startup page on my laserwriter 12/640PS?

[Jason Healy]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:

> For some reason my 12/640 insists on printing the startup page
> whenever the printer is powered on...
>
> I don't appear to have anyway to turn the rascal back off...

As was already mentioned, the LaserWriter utility is the easiest way  
to do this if you have a machine that still runs classic stuff.

Don't know about the 12/640, but our 12/600 had telnet enabled, and  
there was a small menu there that you could use to administer a few  
of the settings (including, IIRC, the banner page).  Of course, that  
requires TCP/IP, which you may not have enabled (or may not know the  
address for).  If this is the case, the following has the procedure  
for assigning an IP via ARP and ping:

     http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=22217

I did it once, but it can be a little tricky.  Once the IP is  
assigned, you can get into the printer and modify the settings.

Jason

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