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<p>Full contents from p. iii; printed extent 38 pp.; add install-disk and PostScript error detail, cited; drop non-citing pages (LaserWriter II NT, a redirect)</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Installing and Using the LaserWriter 8.0 Driver''' is Apple's 1993 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">software </del>update guide, ''<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'42 pages'</del>''. It is a software <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">document, not a </del>hardware <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">one</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Installing and Using the LaserWriter 8.0 Driver''' is Apple's 1993 update guide <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for the LaserWriter 8.0 printer driver for the Macintosh. The printed pages run to 38; the scan has 42 pages including the covers.<ref name="doc">Apple Computer, Inc.</ins>, ''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Installing and Using the LaserWriter 8.0 Driver</ins>'' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(1993), copyright page and contents p. iii (PDF pp. 3-4). Hosted as [[:File:LaserWriter 8.0 Driver 1993.pdf]]</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ref> </ins>It is a software <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">guide and says nothing about printer </ins>hardware.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Contents, with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">guide</del>'s own <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">page numbers ==</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The guide is meant to be used after </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">printer</ins>'s own <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">software has been installed from </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">printer manual</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </ins>LaserWriter 8.0 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Install disk holds the driver</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PostScript Printer Description </ins>(<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PPD</ins>) <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">files</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PrintMonitor</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Backgrounder</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">TeachText </ins>and the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Installer</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Apple says </ins>the driver <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can print to any Apple LaserWriter with PostScript except </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">LaserWriter Select 310</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other makers' printers that have PPD files</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On System 6 the installer replaces PrintMonitor and Backgrounder with versions that may not work </ins>with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">older LaserWriter drivers</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so Apple advises keeping copies </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the old utilities</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref name="inst"></ins>''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Installing and Using the </ins>LaserWriter 8.0 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Driver</ins>''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, pp. 1-4 </ins>(<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PDF pp</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">5-8</ins>)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Installing and Using </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">LaserWriter 8.0 Driver (p. 1), When to refer to this update guide (p</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1), Before you install </del>LaserWriter 8.0 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(p. 2)</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Protecting your disks </del>(<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">p. 2</del>), <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Installing the printer software on your Macintosh (p. 3)</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Installing all the printer software (p. 4)</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Custom installing the printer software (p. 6)</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Selecting </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">setting up </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">printer (p</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">9), Setting up </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">printer </del>driver <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">automatically (p. 10), Setting up </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">printer driver manually (p. 11)</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Configuring the driver </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">use custom settings</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Printing documents (p</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">19), Printing a document </del>with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an automatic cover page (p. 20), Printing colour or greyscale documents (p. 21)</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''Printing a report </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PostScript errors''' (p</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">22), Printing a document with FinePrint or PhotoGrade (p. 23), Printing to a file (p. 24), Turning automatic tray switching on or off (p. 27), Printing at 300 or 600 dpi (p. 28)</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* '</del>''LaserWriter 8.0 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PPD Files'</del>'' (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">p</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">31</del>)</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</del>Printing a report of PostScript errors''' is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the item a repairer would want: it turns </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">silent failure </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">print into </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">message, and distinguishes a software </del>or font problem from a printer fault.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Contents ==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Page numbers are the guide</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s own.<ref name="doc" /></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Installing and Using the LaserWriter 8.0 Driver (p. 1): when to refer to this update guide (1), before you install LaserWriter 8.0 (2), protecting your disks (2), installing the printer software on your Macintosh (3), installing all the printer software (4), custom installing the printer software (6)</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Selecting and setting up the printer (9): setting up the printer driver automatically (10) and manually (11), configuring the driver to use custom installed printer options (14), viewing printer information (16)</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Printing (17): selecting Page Setup options (17)</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* </ins>Printing <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">documents (19): automatic cover page (20), colour or greyscale (21), printing </ins>a report of PostScript errors <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(22), FinePrint or PhotoGrade (23), printing to a file (24), turning automatic tray switching on or off (27), printing at 300 or 600 dpi (28)</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Appendix A, LaserWriter 8.0 PPD Files (31): the PPD files on the install disk, by printer, PostScript version and memory size</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* Key combinations for Zeal font (33)</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The PostScript error option (p. 22) is set in the Print Options dialog: No Special Reporting, Summarize on Screen, or Print Detailed Report, which makes the printer print a report of the PostScript errors it met.<ref name="pserr"></ins>''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Installing and Using the LaserWriter 8.0 Driver</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">', Printing a report of PostScript errors, p. 22 (PDF p. 26).</ref> It </ins>is a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">quick way </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tell </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">driver </ins>or font problem from a printer fault.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== What this document does not contain ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== What this document does not contain ==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''Nothing about the hardware at all.''' No </del>service procedures, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">no </del>parts, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">no </del>schematics, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">no </del>voltages<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, no component values, no </del>symptom charts. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It should never be cited for a hardware figure</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There are no </ins>service procedures, parts, schematics, voltages <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or </ins>symptom charts. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Printer set-up, consumables, maintenance and troubleshooting are left to the manual that came with each printer</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref name="inst" /></ins></div></td></tr>
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Josh: P4: turn document holder into a real documentation page (verification drive)
2026-09-25T06:46:22Z
<p>P4: turn document holder into a real documentation page (verification drive)</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><pdf> File:LaserWriter_8</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">0_Driver_1993</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pdf </pdf></del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''Installing and Using the LaserWriter 8</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">0 Driver''' is Apple's 1993 software update guide, '''42 pages'''. It is a software document, not a hardware one</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Download </del>the 8.0 Driver 1993 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">here</del>: [[:File:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">LaserWriter_8</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">0_Driver_1993</del>.pdf|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">LaserWriter_8</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">0_Driver_1993</del>.pdf]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Contents, with the guide's own page numbers ==</ins></div></td></tr>
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Josh: Josh moved page 8.0 Driver 1993 to Laserwriter 8.0 Driver 1993: Restored vendor prefix to page title
2025-05-05T17:54:47Z
<p>Josh moved page <a href="/8.0_Driver_1993" class="mw-redirect" title="8.0 Driver 1993">8.0 Driver 1993</a> to <a href="/Laserwriter_8.0_Driver_1993" title="Laserwriter 8.0 Driver 1993">Laserwriter 8.0 Driver 1993</a>: Restored vendor prefix to page title</p>
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Josh: Auto-created Apple LaserWriter documentation page
2025-05-05T17:50:46Z
<p>Auto-created Apple LaserWriter documentation page</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div><pdf> File:LaserWriter_8.0_Driver_1993.pdf </pdf><br />
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