[muglo] Re: classic printing?

yeah, it apparently doesnt support a serial connection, unless I'm 
missing something.

And it won't support either of my 2 old printers. It is really for 
the newer, old stuff. (old I guess as in OS9)

I need to be able to print in classic mode.
People have done this, I just dont know how.
Is anyone printing to anything in classic?


>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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