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I've determined that there are these things called PPDs or Postscript Printer Descriptions that you need to use the printer. I was able to get the one for the laserjet 4 but it didn't work. I even tried using truetype fonts in simpletext and it still just printed garbage. So I have determined that the Laserjet4M model is what you need to print from an older Macintosh.

Next try will be getting a QMS Magicolor CX on the network to see if I can print to that since that does officially support PostScript.

Stupid Postsript anyway. Adobe, making the computer world a better place and a worse place at the same time... Don't even get me started on e-Books

EDIT: In case anyone ever revisits this thread here is an update to my situation. I guess it turns out you need a Postscript printer. I was able to print to the QMS just fine. I still needed the LaserWriter 8.5.1 driver (LaserWriter 8 recognized the printer but no printer response when document allegedly was sent) but the printer is recognized in the Chooser so I don't even need to use IP/LRP printing. Also, the Generic PPD works just fine too.

So, starting in a few weeks I will be doing all my word processing in Microsoft Word 5 on a 25MHz Macintosh LCIII with 20MB RAM and 160MB Hard Drive. Ah, what great memories of the good ol days.

And now I'm just thinking: I have more storage on my keychain than this computer has on its hardrive!