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Some tips, tricks and answers…
Q. I tried to install LaserWRiter 8.0, but the installation failed with a message that a “decompressor atom” had expired. ???
A. A mistake, that’s what. Apple inadvertently released the LaserWriter 8.0 installation disk with a time limitation buried in one of the Installer script components. You can either pester your dealer for the LaserWriter 8.1.1 installation disk, available on AppleLink, or simply set for your system clock to any date before October 1, 1993, and perform the installation. Remember to set your clock back to the correct date afterward.
This a good place to note that LaserWriter 8.0 is only for PostScript printers and that the PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files it requires to work with various non-Apple printers are available in the PPD library of the Adobe forum on CompuServe.
David Ramsey
from CompuServe
[The LaserWriter 8.1.1 drivers are available at the Resource Center on its very own disk for $4 (it’s a high-density disk). Ed]
