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Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@rhu.barb.foobar> wrote:

> 
> There's no reason that I know of why you need to use the printer port
> for the printer - the modem port will do the job quite happily as far as
> I know.  Whether or not you can share that printer is not something I
> know anything about at all, although I'd *guess* that if it's a PS
> printer and you're using the LaserWriter driver, you shouldn't have any
> problems if you've got the printer sharing extension in place.  I've not
> tried any printer sharing myself, so I've got no idea how it's supposed
> to work or anything like that.

if the printer is networkable, you simply daisychain it with other macs
and printers from the printer port, via phonenet or appletalk cabling,
as part of the appletalk network and use the modem port for the modem.
There is no need for printershare with a networkable printer, only
non-networkable ones like the stylewriter, where a mac acts as the
network interface, ie a print server, as occurs in the PC world, with
the print server connected to the network, but the stylewriter connected
to the modem port.