Mark - thank for your reply and encouragement. I agree that the problem
is chiefly one of very poor advice - nay direction - from HP but there
are also other factors at work, I believe, not least how Tiger now
behaves with AppleTalk and - perhaps - how it interacts with other
machines, sharing the same printers on AppleTalk.
It is strange how you can set things up with a printer or three and
then bowl along with upgrades for the next year or two without a
backward glance but, when you suddenly lose that many times inherited
printer voodoo and you are back to scratch, suddenly the computer is
recalcitrant at best and downright broken at worst.
I could grow old waiting for HP or Epson to get back to me so I bit a
bullet and reverted (without too many qualms as I was never that
convinced Tiger was much of an improvement, if at all.) It took fully
24 hours to get everything working again but we seem to be there, with
fully functional printers an a'.
The one problem casualty of the process was the loss of my iCal
calendars which should not have been a problem but the Backup version,
when restored, bore no relation to what I had lost and the iSync
version on the iBook was not fully Synchd and I could not get my iCal
calendars back. That is until I just happened upon an idea and it may
be worth noting..... I unplugged the G3 from the network as this has
been subscribing to the main published calendars. I had a feeling that
if I launched iCal on that machine while it was still connected it
would sync to nothing. I was able to export the synchd calendars to the
desktop and then import them into the G4 and we are now more or less
back to where we were - but what grief.
I plan to stay with Panther until I buy a new G5 and then I will try
again as I can then use the G4 as a print server if it goes badly.
The problems I had, of communicating with AppleTalk printers has gone
and the problem of not being able to install the Epson driver has gone
and I think this was down to Tiger " Panther. The reason it became a
problem at all was entirely down to HP.
Sorry for the long ramble.
Drew
On 26 Jul 2005, at 12:49, Mark Benson wrote:
On Tuesday, July 26, 2005, at 09:05AM, Andrew Rodger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I have run into a problem with Tiger not working well with my
printers (Ethernet).
My advice is this is solvable inside of Tiger. Don't revert. It's
plain from your description (to me at least) that the fault lies in
HP's advice not in the OS. In my experience printer drivers often
cause this kind of crap-up - and also if it worked at one stage in
it's life it'll work again - it's just how to get back there that's
the issue.
Contact HP by phone and, if they will let you speak to a support
person (failing the phone try e-mailing them), tell them exactly what
has happened. Chances are this has happened to more than one person.
Also phone or e-mail Epson with the same info but slanted from the
Epson side. They may have come across this also, failing that they may
be able to make sense of your error with the Epson driver.
In answer to your question, your prefernces will be ok for non-Apple
apps that are not upgraded as part of OS X's upgrade to 10.4, however
all your OS X specific prefs will be toast becuase they will have had
stuff changed by 10.4.
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