adding printers to a G5 iMac
Dear Listers, My wife's iMac G5 is currently connected to a Lexmark laser printer that works fine. She wants me to connect a color printer to the iMac The problem is, I can't ADD any other printers to this computer. I have been talked through the process of adding printers (OS 10.4.11) by a tech person at Canon, but we were not successful. The printer I am trying to add is a Canon Pixma MX300. The iMac sees the new printer and it is listed as being connected to the Mac via direct USB in System Profiler, but the iMac can't find the driver that the Canon tech and I installed and re-installed. The printer works fine when connected with the same cable to another Mac. I suspect that the problem is caused by some sort of conflict in the G5, but I don't know how to fix it. Can any of you suggest a cure? I have run Disk Warrior, Disk Tools, repaired permissions, zapped PRAM, reset NVRAM and defaults and tried using a different USB port and cable. No problems were discovered Happy Holidays to all and thanks for your ideas and input. Larry Eden -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
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Dana Pard, et All G'day!, many Thanx for noticeing ;-) the chime. Am glad proud, still-yet to be hangin' here with All of you Good G3-5 folkx.. Nice to hear that you're still around, mate. A Happy Christmas and New Year season to you and yours. Ditto! All the Best the Season has to offer, right backatcha.. (p.s. I like MacDesktops, too, and appreciate that the good pictures are available in so many resolutions) All the oldie but goodys are still hungout there, easy pickin's to be sure. Yup, when Mirroring just works (same size displays, and ain't boring) all is good, altho for separate resolutions, their matchup choices are deadon purty real easy on ol' peepers, too. (fyi-note: I've still got that rightiously decent TimeFlyz screen saver (zilch GPU suck) loaded workin' cool on Tiger thru Snow.) Merry X'mas Happy-happy New Year 2011 to All. Cheers! ;-) Respectful of GURUs; Bill Cornett Whole Lotta Rosie -AC/DC / -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: adding printers to a G5 iMac
At 8:53 AM -0500 12/24/2010, Lawrence David Eden wrote: iMac G5 OS 10.4.11 Canon Pixma MX300. The iMac sees the new printer and it is listed as being connected to the Mac via direct USB in System Profiler Good. but the iMac can't find the driver that the Canon tech and I installed and re-installed. You installed this driver? Printer Driver for OSX (6.9.3) http://software.canon-europe.com/products/0010490.asp I suspect that the problem is caused by some sort of conflict in the G5, but I don't know how to fix it. Can any of you suggest a cure? After installing that driver package, and connecting the printer, if you go into any app and do a print command, does the printer show up at all in the list, even under Bonjour? If you try to add the printer from the system preferences, what exactly happens? Do any Canon printers show up in the driver list? I have run Disk Warrior, Disk Tools, repaired permissions, zapped PRAM, reset NVRAM and defaults and tried using a different USB port and cable. No problems were discovered None of the above are even appropriate, except repairing permissions. The latter being worth trying because it's possible that Canon's installer farked things on the way in. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Printing problems
Fair enough request answers interspersed! On Dec 24, 2010, at 2:46 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: Maybe a little more information on your printing setup? Is the printer (model?) directly connected via USB or on a network? Samsung CLP 310 --- directly connected, USB no network. Been working fine for months. Is the printer shown correctly in System PreferencesPrint Fax? Yes If you go to http://localhost:631 do you see the Common UNIX Printing System 1.3.11 page? Yes You might try a Safe Boot by holding the Shift key at startup, this will trash all the System caches and rebuild them which may solve your problem relatively easily? Tried already --- no effect. Also --- downloaded and installed Security update 2010-007 Combo update 10.5.8 re-installed Console messages mentioned 'atMonitor' problems? -- so killed 'atMonitor' --- no effect. Mentioned a problem with users/cad/library/LaunchAgents/Printers Went looking --- file had 3 printers listed, all variations on CLP310. tried removing various combinations -- no effect. Chuck -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Printing problems
Have a similar problem after an OS software update. Samsung 1750 and my Epson R320 would not print, they were seen but no joy when it came time to print. I downloded the latest drivers from each manufacturer, trashed the old prefs/drivers, reinstalled, restarted and they worked again. Good luck. On Dec 24, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Charles Davis wrote: mr bluellama...@embarqmail.com -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
MDD 10.5.8 memory loss
Greetings, I just upgraded my MDD dual 867mhz with 1.5gb ram to OS 10.5.8. Now I am running out of memory. I have a 30gb harddrive dedicated solely to system and it is completely used up. When I first started with Leopard, I had over 5gb of memory space left on the hd, now I have none. What can I do to regain the space, and any ideas how it disappeared. Thanks, Lee -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: What card is this?
Jonas Ulrich wrote: Yep. Modem indeed. As a person who just recently got cable internet, I'm very familiar with Apple's modems. Thanks all... I knew it had to be something I wasn't using since both machines work. ;-) Cheers, Drew -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: MDD 10.5.8 memory loss
On Dec 24, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Stro wrote: What can I do to regain the space, Apple recommends 4GB freespace as a MINIMUM for Tiger or newer, and more is better. I'd buy a bigger HD, they're cheap now. Remember you need an ATA/IDE (also called PATA now), NOT a SATA (unless you also buy an SATA PCI card). It might be as easy to get an external Firewire HD and boot from Firewire? When I first started with Leopard, I had over 5gb of memory space left on the hd, now I have none. clip and any ideas how it disappeared. 5GB freespace is almost ZERO freespace on a modern computer. You need freespace for the System virtual memory swap files, the internet temporary files, and any other temp files from apps. It disappeared into these files, and now you're hamstrung with no freespace. Honestly, get a larger HD and clone your system across to the new HD. Perhaps better, get TWO matching HDs and use one as a Time Machine backup; or if you want more speed, get THREE HDs and use two as a striped RAID to boot from, and one as a Time Machine backup. In this scenario you'd get two matching that are half the size of the one backup, so say two 250GB matching for the striped RAID to boot from, and one 500GB for the Time Machine backup. If you want to try and get some freespace on your current HD, there are ways to trash large unnecessary files. Ones that I'm aware of are tutorial movies for Quicktime or iMovie. I'm sure there are others, you'll have to look. The way to find these large files is to do a Find (Cmd-f) using the SizeGreater Than search field and select a large size to start (so you won't get too many returns) and delete any large unnecessary files. You can also use something like Monolingual to remove extra languages, input methods, or CPU architectures you don't need. Monolingual can free up to nearly 1 GB if you've installed all the extra languages that you can't read. Also, since Leopard is completely universal in contains double the code for BOTH PPC Intel CPUs. This is nice if you plan to upgrade to Intel, but not completely necessary unless you planned upon moving the HD into an Intel Mac or cloning it to an Intel Mac. Since the current Intel OS is now Snow Leopard which lacks all PPC code, it would probably be better to start on an Intel Mac with a clean installation of Snow Leopard and reinstall fresh applications, so having Intel code on your PPC Mac is probably just bloat for now and can be safely removed. Removing the Intel code from Leopard using Monolingual will save a lot of space, but your System will no longer be universal, it will be PPC only. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: MDD 10.5.8 memory loss
At 1:18 PM -0800 12/24/10, Stro wrote: MDD dual 867mhz with 1.5gb ram to OS 10.5.8. Now I am running out of memory. I have a 30gb harddrive dedicated solely to system and it is completely used up. When I first started with Leopard, I had over 5gb of memory space left on the hd, now I have none. What can I do to regain the space, and any ideas how it disappeared. 5 GB is no where near enough space for OS X to work in. You need space for VM files, temp files, and caches... Quit all yer apps then use a tool such as OnyX to empty all the user caches, then the system one's. Note that after clearing the kernel cache, you'll need to rebuild so the OS can rebuild it cleanly. That reboot will also jettison extra VM files. To do a deeper cleaning, use AppleJack. ...Both OnyX and AppleJack have been discussed over and over on these LEM mailing lists. Please check our archives for the details. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
the big knot thingy?
ok, here's a question I've had for awhile now You know when you get firewire cables or usb cables or audio cables, you see those big black plastic cylinder things on the cord about 2 inches from the end of the cable? what are they? Jeff Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: the big knot thingy?
Those are Ferrite Ring Filters. They are designed to help cut down on interference. Here is a link to some of the do it yourself types. http://www.camera2000.com/en/2-lots-tdk-clip-on-emi-rfi-filter-snap-around-ferrite.html On 12/24/2010 4:49 PM, Jeffrey Daile Engle wrote: ok, here's a question I've had for awhile now You know when you get firewire cables or usb cables or audio cables, you see those big black plastic cylinder things on the cord about 2 inches from the end of the cable? what are they? Jeff Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: the big knot thingy?
Thank you for that informative answer:-) Jeff On Dec 24, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Jason Brown wrote: Those are Ferrite Ring Filters. They are designed to help cut down on interference. Here is a link to some of the do it yourself types. http://www.camera2000.com/en/2-lots-tdk-clip-on-emi-rfi-filter-snap-around-ferrite.html On 12/24/2010 4:49 PM, Jeffrey Daile Engle wrote: ok, here's a question I've had for awhile now You know when you get firewire cables or usb cables or audio cables, you see those big black plastic cylinder things on the cord about 2 inches from the end of the cable? what are they? Jeff Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
All of a sudden yet another new movie file format *.YES
All of a sudden yet another new movie file format *.YES What is this one and who can play it. It was a dl via Real, but now Real can't or won't play it. JML -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: All of a sudden yet another new movie file format *.YES
On Dec 24, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: All of a sudden yet another new movie file format *.YES Where did you encounter this filetype? There doesn't seem to be any .yes filetype, movie or otherwise. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Printing problems
I believe I may have located the problem!! Looked at the printer --- it's a 315, NOT a 310 (was a replacement from Samsung for a 310) Downloading the correct driver package as I write this. Installation will tell. Results later. Chuck On Dec 24, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Charles Davis wrote: Fair enough request answers interspersed! On Dec 24, 2010, at 2:46 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: Maybe a little more information on your printing setup? Is the printer (model?) directly connected via USB or on a network? Samsung CLP 310 --- directly connected, USB no network. Been working fine for months. Is the printer shown correctly in System PreferencesPrint Fax? Yes If you go to http://localhost:631 do you see the Common UNIX Printing System 1.3.11 page? Yes You might try a Safe Boot by holding the Shift key at startup, this will trash all the System caches and rebuild them which may solve your problem relatively easily? Tried already --- no effect. Also --- downloaded and installed Security update 2010-007 Combo update 10.5.8 re-installed Console messages mentioned 'atMonitor' problems? -- so killed 'atMonitor' --- no effect. Mentioned a problem with users/cad/library/LaunchAgents/Printers Went looking --- file had 3 printers listed, all variations on CLP310. tried removing various combinations -- no effect. Chuck -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: the big knot thingy?
Those act as binders to keep the pairs of audio cables together, they also help you, the user to know by touch when you are at the end of a cable or set of cables. From: Jeffrey Daile Engle macgu...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, December 24, 2010 2:49:45 PM Subject: the big knot thingy? ok, here's a question I've had for awhile now You know when you get firewire cables or usb cables or audio cables, you see those big black plastic cylinder things on the cord about 2 inches from the end of the cable? what are they? Jeff Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: MDD 10.5.8 memory loss
Hi, Most people already covered the basics, larger HD, clean caches, etc but one nasty thing leopard does out of the box that I don't think anyone mentioned is it downloads software updates in the background and takes up a bunch of space with their installer files until you do software update. Plus if you go into system preferences and tell it not to DL automaticly if it has downloaded anything already it just let's it sit there taking up space until you update. While I realize its a feature so you don't have to wait for software update downloads its very annoying to suddenly see a few GB missing from your HD one day which happened to me on a hackintosh netbook and those few GB was all I had left. With some work you can get 10.5 AND osx dev tools on an 8gb ssd 8gb sd card working togather. The one tool I used to locate and get rid of large unnecessary files is called whatsize (whatsizemac.com). Its a paid tool ($13.00) but it helps you find ALL the large files even in the system/hidden folders. 10.5 has a bunch of non-english fonts in the system folder it always installs reguardless of the languages you pick that you can get rid of, there's speech voices, sound files, etc, that most people don't use too. There's a program out there to strip the intel code out of universial binary apps called Trim the fat (macupdate.com) that can save you some space, I believe its free. I would look at the user apps and user files too and see if you can free up about 10gb or so since I can tell you running 10.5 inside of tight constraints (8gb ssd) is possible but always an up hill battle and not fun. Last resort before buying a new HD I would do a clean install after backing up your user stuff, there may just be a lot of old system stuff floating around. HTH Joe Reilly Stro lstro...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I just upgraded my MDD dual 867mhz with 1.5gb ram to OS 10.5.8. Now I am running out of memory. I have a 30gb harddrive dedicated solely to system and it is completely used up. When I first started with Leopard, I had over 5gb of memory space left on the hd, now I have none. What can I do to regain the space, and any ideas how it disappeared. Thanks, Lee -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: All of a sudden yet another new movie file format *.YES
Dear Listers, I forgot to include this fact: The file was auto dl from a site and given the name *.YES. When I went to play it the following came on screen: Can not play with Quicktime 7.6.4 version. I am running 10.4.11, G4, QT 7.6.4 which is the last version. Any ideas? --- On Fri, 12/24/10, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: From: Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net Subject: Re: All of a sudden yet another new movie file format *.YES To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, December 24, 2010, 4:19 PM On Dec 24, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: All of a sudden yet another new movie file format *.YES Where did you encounter this filetype? There doesn't seem to be any .yes filetype, movie or otherwise. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Printing problems
Well, hopes dashed! The 315 uses the 310 drivers. download and install of current files did NOT show any improvement. Chuck On Dec 24, 2010, at 6:44 PM, Charles Davis wrote: I believe I may have located the problem!! Looked at the printer --- it's a 315, NOT a 310 (was a replacement from Samsung for a 310) Downloading the correct driver package as I write this. Installation will tell. Results later. Chuck -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
