On Nov 12, 2004, at 10:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 10:24 PM -0500 11/08/2004, Richard Starr wrote:
I'm pretty sour on os X printing.
Me too.
At least with my Epson 785epx printer, the controls available in X (10.3.6) are far fewer than I can get in os9. So I do most of my graphics work in 9.
Same boat - Epson, HP, and a Xerox 850. Can't even figure out how to switch the Xerox from draft/standard to photo quality! All Xerox provides is a set of PPDs. All those options that were available via the LaserWriter driver in OS 9 seem to be GONE in X.
The PPD is where all those options that were in the Laserwriter driver are stored. Any printer that operated with a PPD via Laserwriter in OS 9 should work exactly the same in OS X, because they're using Postscript.
The printers that have problems and need GIMP-Print, etc, are ones that AREN'T Postscript printers.
The 850 certainly is a Postscript printer. If you have a different PPD than what ships with OS X for that printer, to use it, you select it in the Model option when you select Get Info from the printer in Print center. Get the printer description file from your Extensions:Printer Descriptions folder in the OS 9 System folder. Those are merely PPD's with custom icons.
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