[muglo] Re: classic printing?

Tried gimp print? It seems to work quite well with many printers that aren't
recognized by OS-X... It's freeware at: gimp-print.sourceforge.net

Garth.

> I've been really frustrated since I've been trying to make OSX my
> main OS. I have some questions about printing. I've searched the web,
> and all I get is more confused.
> 
> Can printing be done in classic mode? I have a serial printer. I
> choose it in the chooser in classic mode, but I cant seem to turn
> appletalk off (a little blurb comes up saying open network
> preferences and choose appletalk, but I have no idea what this
> means). Appletalk isnt even supported in classic, so why cant I turn
> it off?
> Anyway, I go to print and I get an error in classic, similar to os9,
> saying please make sure a printer is connected blah blah, well it is,
> obviously it just cant see it.
> 
> What good are classic apps if you cant even print from them??
> 
> I have also unsuccessfully tried to print with my Imagewriter in OSX.
> I installed the drivers from linuxprinting.org, but while the
> imagewriter starts to print, it stops and never prints the last 2
> lines of any document.
> 
> Seems like all my older serial devices I thought would work in
> classic at least, wont even work at all.
> This is getting to be more frustrating than Windowz problems....
> 
> anyone printing in classic mode? if so , how?
> 
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