On 10-Feb-06, at 1:49 PM, Patrick Mead-Robins wrote:
Definitely flawed understanding - sorry.
OS X uses Printer Setup and associated drivers and Classic (OS 9)
uses the OS 9 printer extensions and the Chooser.
Patrick Mead-Robins
Yup, I acknowledge my error.
A workaround that DOES work would be to create a document in
something like SimpleText, which is a Classic application, but then
reopen it in an OS X application like TextEdit and print from there,
although that's a pretty simplistic example.
An option which MIGHT work would be to install Adobe Acrobat on the
OS 9 side of things so that you could always create a PDF file using
the Print command in OS 9, then flip over to OS X, open the PDF file
there, and print it. Again not very pleasing but entirely workable. I
do 99% of my printing to a black and white laser printer and only
occasionally have to print in colour to my inkjet printer. If I had
to use Acrobat to get to that colour printer, it would work for me.
But I can see that for man others it would not be a practical solution.
Anyway, it sounds from all the other postings that there are a number
of printer options available that would allow one to avoid all this
stuff, although perhaps not with the specific printer which is owned
by the originator of this thread.
Jim Foster
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