Plug the laptop into a TV or monitor.
Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer [email protected] http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer https://www.youtube.com/user/fluxstringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 3:53 PM, davidw1235 via iMac Group < [email protected]> wrote: > Can't you download directly to a flash drive and check that for bugs > before installing? > > BTW, I am still recovering from a nasty P.U.P. I picked up the beginning > of the month. > But that happened to my laptop PC not any of my iMacs > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 25, 2016, at 3:09 PM, Bob Whiton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Weeks later, half a box of 4x6 photo paper and $25 worth of ink wasted, > and the verdict is: It’s Hosed. > > > > I copied every printer related file I could find on my backup, and none > of it worked. The printer driver version number shown in the printer prefs > never changed, even though I copied a CUPS driver with an older version > number into the proper folder. > > > > Looks like I’ll have to be careful to never update software on my laptop > and use it for photo printing from now on. > > > > Isn’t technology supposed to improve over time? > > > > Bob > > > >> On Jan 26, 2016, at 5:56 PM, Google <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On Jan 26, 2016, at 10:00 AM, Bob Whiton <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi All - > >>> > >>> I recently made the mistake of letting Software Update nag me into > installing new printer drivers, and now I’m paying for it. Here’s the set > up: Aluminum iMac running OS 10.9.5, downloaded and installed the HP > Printer Software Update 3.1. Now my Deskjet printer misaligns photos and > borders. Spent a week on the HP support forum, uninstalled/reinstalled > printer driver, reset printing system, no joy. Tried printing from my > Macbook with the old driver, worked fine. Ergo, new driver bad. Neither > HP or Apple has the old driver available for download. Someone on the HP > forum sent a link to a third-party software download site for the old > driver (3.0), but I’m hesitant to install software from an unknown third > party (more than hesitant, actually). No help yet from Apple support forum > either. > >>> > >>> I do have a backup made a few weeks ago which should have the old > driver installed. So, is there a way to extract the old driver from the > clone? Another way to recover the old driver? (Since this is 10.9, i > don’t have an install DVD to load the driver from) > >>> > >>> [software update rant omitted] > >>> > >>> Bob > >> > >> Bob, > >> > >> Boot your iMac from your backup clone made a few weeks ago. Open up the > contents of the backup clone hard drive. Go to the Library folder (not the > Library in System or Users). Click on the Library > Printers folder, then > drag and drop it on the icon for your iMac’s internal hard drive. Then > double-click the iMac’s hard drive icon to display its contents. Find the > Printers folder you just dropped, click on it and drag it to the Library > folder. Choose “replace” in the dialogue window that opens. > >> > >> That will replace all the critical printer drivers with the old ones > that worked. Close everything, then shut down and reboot to the iMac’s > built-in hard drive. Your printer should be working correctly again since > you’ve replaced all the new drivers with the old ones. > >> > >> If not, or if there are still issues, reboot to your old backup media, > then do the same drag and drop process for (backupdrive) > System > > Printers and (backupdrive) > Users > (your user folder) > Library > > Printers. You can make your Users Library appear by clicking on your user > folder, then holding down the Option key while selecting Go from the Finder > menubar, then finally selecting Library from the Go spilldown menu. > >> > >> If there are still issues, do the same drag and drop with the relevant > HP folders found in (backupdrive) > Users > (your user folder) > Library > > Application Support. There also might be something lingering in > (backupdrive) > Users > (your user folder) > Library > Preferences. > >> > >> Printer applications, as with many others, stick stuff all over an > operating system. I’ve followed the steps above several times over the > years to get rid of a printer update that did a FUBAR on my printers. > Simply replacing the (iMac hard drive) > Library > Printers folder with a > known good one should do the trick. But you may find that HP has stuck > stuff elsewhere that also has to be replaced. > >> > >> If your backup clone is a Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper clone, then > the above also can be done piecemeal using those applications. Also, if > you’ve got a Time Machine backup, you can go back in time and retrieve your > old printer stuff that way too, but it’s more difficult. > >> > >> There are other ways to revert your printer software back to the setup > that worked, but these are my recommendations. > >> > >> CAUTION: Whatever you do, make sure all of your personal data contained > in your user folder has been backed up separately from your “backup clone > made a few weeks ago.” Why? If all else fails, you can re-clone your old > backup onto your iMac, then import your current personal data from the > current separate backup. > >> > >> Hope this helps. > >> > >> Jim > >> > >> > >> -- > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > >> The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> To leave this group, send email to > [email protected] > >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > >> > >> --- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "iMac Group" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "iMac Group" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. 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