Updated drivers for Costar LabelWriters may not be enough

George Oster writes: "Costar technical support admits that LabelWriters (II and XL) do not work with Mac OS 8.5, despite the claim that their recently released drivers work. It seems that the AppleShare handling in 8.5 is the problem, so the LabelWriter Chooser extension can't access the serial port correctly. They recommend using PortShare Pro from Stalker Software as a work-around, and Costar will fax a Technical Note giving the procedure. However, Stalker claims that this won't work."

On the other hand, several readers have reported no problems after installing the updated drivers.