I booted in OS 9.22 and down loaded the latest HP print driver for OS 9 for the HP PSC 1315 all in one. I went into the chooser and selected the printer. I created an Appleworks document to use as a test file to test the printing. (I will be printing old appleworks / clarisworks files in OS 9.22) The printer has an error message saying the print cartridge has been changed. I open the desktop printer and click past this message. (how do I clear this for good?) After the print cartridge message is cleared, I get a message saying there is not enough memory for the desktop printer. I added 1024 min 2048 max. I keep getting the same error.
If you're actually booted in OS 9, then OS X is moot.
When printing in OS 8/9, there are four memory "issues": 1) The driver needs memory. 1) The driver's backgrounder needs memory. 2) The Finder needs extra memory. 3) The application needs extra memory.
The driver gets its memory from the System heap. You see that as the free memory in the Apple menu> About This Computer dialog.
The driver's backgrounder will be found in your Extensions folder. You need to boot with extensions off to be able to modify it properly. Turn OFF background printing to see if this is part of your problem, before you try to give it extra memory.
The Finder needs xtra memory for certain background switching operations. If you turn OFF background printing, and things suddenly work, then Finder is part of the problem.
The application from which you're printing needs oddles of memory... AppleWorks is especially needy there. I have a lot of complicated documents that won't print unless I give it 16 MB+.
Also note that you need to have available spool space on your hard drive for the driver's temp files. By default that would be on your boot drive.
These two errors, slow print times and slow all over performance are the reason I reloaded the entire mac from scratch.
heh. (I'm not an advocate of reinstalling the OS, ever).
+/- the above... Printing under OS 8/9 was never "fast".
Are there any known problems with a G3 blue and white running OS 10.3.2?
Moot; you're in OS 9.
Are there any known problems with a G3 blue and white printing in classic mode with a USB connection?
Yes, but... Careful of your terminology. "Classic (mode)" is an emulation environment that runs under Mac OS X. Within it, components of the real Mac OS 9 operating system are loaded and run. In this environment, OS 9 has NO access to i/o devices - everything is passed back up to OS X. This is why "Classic" is abysmally slow and very buggy. But if you've actually bootttted the real Mac OS 9 (not from within OS X) then you are running Mac OS 9, NOT the Classic emulation environment, and therefore "Classic" issues are moot.
Could this problem be an extension conflict?
Odd question. As part of your own debugging, you should already have reduced OS 9 to the default set plus the print driver. (hint)
- Dan.
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