Re: OS9 printing...?

On 2005-11-21 00:27:11 +0000, Charles Dyer <charlesd@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

LW8 doesn't show the printers? Are the printers PostScript? If so, LW8 is _supposed_ to show them. If not, LW8 won't show them, but they'll be in the dialog and print properly anyway. I wish that Apple would fix that, it annoys the hell out of me.

I suspect that the problem may well have its roots here - both the printers (a HP Laserjet 4000N and a ColorLaserJet 4500) ARE PostScript - but they (still) don't show up in Chooser...

That's not good. That means that Classic is not finding the OS X printer applet. I get that message under only one circumstance: if I've deleted the OS X printer in question but Classic doesn't know it. Classic generates a folder in the OS 9 System Folder/Preferences called 'Printing Prefs'. In that folder will be at least two files, 'LaserWriter 8 Prefs' and 'Printing Plug-in Prefs', plus a folder 'Parsed PPD Folder'. Parsed PPD Folder will contain the printers LW8 knows about. Printers which _used_ to be available in OS X but aren't anymore will still be in that folder.... ...You can reset LW8 by shutting down Classic, deleting the entire Printing Prefs folder, and restarting Classic. The LaserWriter 8 Prefs file and the Parsed PPD Folder will be updated to reflect reality. Only the printers really available should show. 

Done; but they don't show - I just get a 'generic' printer in that folder.

If you _still_ can't print after that, then there's another problem: HP's installers are notorious for messing up the permissions when they install printer drivers. I'd shut down Classic again, delete the Printing Prefs folder again, repair permissions using Disk Utility, and then start Classic again. If _that_ doesn't work, then something's _really_ screwed on your machine, and what you've got here is just a symptom of that serious screwing. 

Groan....

To fix that will require more data to do some troubleshooting. At a minimum I'd run repair disk in Disk Utility, or just dig out Disk Warrior or Tech Tool Pro (NOT, repeat, NOT, under any circumstances whatsoever, Norton Utilities or anything else made by Symantec) and have the utility try to fix the problem. I can't say more, as I don't know what the problem might be.

I ran Disk Utility, which said the disk was screwed, and dropped out of Verify.... I then booted into DiskWarrior, which replaced the HD directory; when run again, Disk Utility gave the HD a clean bill of health.

I then repeated the killing of Classic, junking of Printer Preferences; and ran Classic again.

The good news is that I no longer get the original error message; the bad news is that printing STILL doesn't work (the print job vanishes into limbo) and the printers still don't show up in Chooser....

Help!

+ dunkan

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