Harry, I installed a very old Canon portable printer a few weeks ago. Once it was connected & turned on I went into the printer preferences, hit the + to add a new printer and the OS ask if the driver it brought to me was the correct one. Crazy simple. Otherwise go to Brother’s URL & download it.
John. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 3, 2018, at 8:03 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <harr...@me.com> wrote: > > I down loaded wine and was able to run the label software. Unfortunately I > inadvertently deleted the printer driver I had installed for the label > printer and am unable to figure out how to get it back. > > It’s a brother label printer for a pc PT 2430. not sure what to do to get it > back. > > Thanks. > > >> On May 22, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <harr...@me.com> wrote: >> >> thanks lee. I’ll give virtual box a try. >> >> >>> On May 22, 2018, at 12:19 PM, Lee Larson <leelar...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>> On May 22, 2018, at 8:24 AM, William Micou <derby...@mac.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I’m sure you would have thought of this, but are there still programs that >>>> emulate a vitual Window machine? What were those - Boot Camp? VM Ware? I >>>> haven’t heard or read much about those lately. >>> >>> There are a bunch of ways. >>> >>> Boot Camp uses a separate partition on your Mac’s hard drive to turn it >>> into a dual-boot machine. Using Boot Camp, your machine is either a Mac or >>> a Windows machine. Not both at the same time. You need a copy of Windows to >>> use it. >>> >>> VirtualBox, Parallels and Fusion all run Windows as a virtual machine. All >>> these need a copy of Windows to work. With any of these, your machine is a >>> Mac and Windows machine at the same time. >>> >>> I use VirtualBox because it’s free. I have Windows and Fedora Linux images >>> on my machine that run under VirtualBox. I rarely use it. >>> >>> Another approach is to use one of the Wine variants. Wine lets you run many >>> Windows programs without having Windows. It tries to map Windows operating >>> system calls to their Mac equivalents. It’s kind of like magically turning >>> Windows programs into Mac programs. >>> >>> The free open source route is WineBottler. A commercial version is >>> Crossover Mac. Neither works with all Windows software, so you’d better >>> check their compatibility lists before spending time messing with them. >>> I’ve tried both, and they both work pretty well—when they work. Crossover >>> was far and away the better of the two. But, I haven’t used either one >>> recently. >>> >>> L^2 >>> >>> PS/ Wine started out as WINE under Linux, standing for Wine Is Not An >>> Emulator. >>> --- >>> Lee Larson leelar...@me.com >>> >>> Where a calculator like the ENIAC today is equipped with 18,000 vacuum >>> tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 >>> vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh only 1 1/2 tons. — Popular Mechanics >>> March 1949 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacGroup mailing list >>> Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu >>> Archive: >>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=Ayg4a6tMaj3NxExffnp9ohoIi3wzuLFucGNvPi011qI&s=fthbUgYQzM758w7dqsMavc2OPklIGNUbj_EEAV2GA0I&e=> >>> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Archive: >> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=mQEKtZfdLjqEPY7Q1JegncXdnHZsv9-D9hCDu530GIc&s=kpGi0_dtoWZHxiIZzhKamtJpsjfkqzATIxgcSFxZaNw&e=> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=-nVY0wI2g5YqM9j-IYbmgEHOtMko54Ql1tlFrhzSleI&s=IahOR2ngy5ePrHGG3va01Pde8_MFMG0YjW3d_2ykIjc&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
