I did go to printers preferences and attempted to add a printer. And it connects via a usb port.
This is a pc printer and I am unable to find a Mac driver for it. The Wine App that Lee recommended sure is neat. I am able to run the .exe program that came with the printer without installing windows. Way cool. > On Jun 3, 2018, at 8:44 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> thanks lee. I’ll give virtual box a try. >>> >>> >>>> On May 22, 2018, at 12:19 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> On May 22, 2018, at 8:24 AM, William Micou <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] >>>> >>>> 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: [email protected] >>>> 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: [email protected] >>> 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: [email protected] >> 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: [email protected] > 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=Gphy8SV3d2CrOhtzAE5mvxOR-aadU_iiFpufgODQ7mE&s=-Rcx4YemUvKDWjbKX9eZ76pgXO9EBMIx2MTXEFIjU8s&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
