Re: SL upgrade
Hi Ronni, Yes its updated to 10.6.1 this morning and printer is connected via USB - it was before the SL installation and it worked ok. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 1:53 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Is the Printer connected to your mac by USB or how? And have you updated to 10.6.1? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:45 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, No, I can get into the Options + Supplies window which has 3 tabs: General, Driver + Supply Levels Clicking on Driver shows the information: Print using: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 (not highlighted but grey) It won't let me scroll for other drivers. It also has the comment: The driver and optional hardware settings for shared printers can not be modified. So earlier I changed the option in Sharing to printer sharing off. But it didn't change anything. Thanks Cheers, Walter As I said before its just the name of the printer On 20/09/2009, at 1:29 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Are you saying you can't click Options Supplies to show the Printer Driver you are using? On 20/09/2009, at 1:21 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, It shows: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740. Its shaded - not highlighted I had a look this morning trying to find the driver description, but because the description is the name of the printer I dismissed it. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 12:36 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, System Preferences Print Fax - select your Printer, then click on Options Supplies General - Driver version Also what does it say under Driver Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 12:31 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes I meant PrintJobMgr. I had already peviously cleared the jobs queued - it still would not print. How can I tell which driver I'm using ? Thanks for your reply, Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 11:40 , Ronda Brown wrote: On 20/09/2009, at 10:46 AM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hello all, Have today installed SL with 10.6.1 upgrade to follow. So far haven't noticed any problems - except the printer won't work anymore. The printer is listed + selected in the print/fax preference window and the driver is listed in the Apple list. But when it comes to printing the alert The process PrintJobMgs stopped unexpectedly with status 255 Any suggestions what to do ? Printer: Epson Stylus Color 740 Hello Walter, I think you mean PrintJobMgr not Mgs Are you using the Gutenprint v5.2.3 driver or an Epson Driver from Epson website? Check if you have any print jobs queued. System Preferences Print Fax - select your printer - then Open Print Queue If there are any jobs listed ... delete them. Then see if you can print. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: SL upgrade
Ok thanks Walter, Before I suggest you delete the Printer from Print Fax Preferences then re-add the printer. Please let me know what driver version it is saying under the General tab? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:59 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes its updated to 10.6.1 this morning and printer is connected via USB - it was before the SL installation and it worked ok. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 1:53 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Is the Printer connected to your mac by USB or how? And have you updated to 10.6.1? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:45 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, No, I can get into the Options + Supplies window which has 3 tabs: General, Driver + Supply Levels Clicking on Driver shows the information: Print using: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 (not highlighted but grey) It won't let me scroll for other drivers. It also has the comment: The driver and optional hardware settings for shared printers can not be modified. So earlier I changed the option in Sharing to printer sharing off. But it didn't change anything. Thanks Cheers, Walter As I said before its just the name of the printer On 20/09/2009, at 1:29 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Are you saying you can't click Options Supplies to show the Printer Driver you are using? On 20/09/2009, at 1:21 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, It shows: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740. Its shaded - not highlighted I had a look this morning trying to find the driver description, but because the description is the name of the printer I dismissed it. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 12:36 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, System Preferences Print Fax - select your Printer, then click on Options Supplies General - Driver version Also what does it say under Driver Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 12:31 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes I meant PrintJobMgr. I had already peviously cleared the jobs queued - it still would not print. How can I tell which driver I'm using ? Thanks for your reply, Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 11:40 , Ronda Brown wrote: On 20/09/2009, at 10:46 AM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hello all, Have today installed SL with 10.6.1 upgrade to follow. So far haven't noticed any problems - except the printer won't work anymore. The printer is listed + selected in the print/fax preference window and the driver is listed in the Apple list. But when it comes to printing the alert The process PrintJobMgs stopped unexpectedly with status 255 Any suggestions what to do ? Printer: Epson Stylus Color 740 Hello Walter, I think you mean PrintJobMgr not Mgs Are you using the Gutenprint v5.2.3 driver or an Epson Driver from Epson website? Check if you have any print jobs queued. System Preferences Print Fax - select your printer - then Open Print Queue If there are any jobs listed ... delete them. Then see if you can print. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: SL upgrade
Hi Ronni, It says Driver version: 1.0 Thanks Walter On 20/09/2009, at 2:06 , Ronda Brown wrote: Ok thanks Walter, Before I suggest you delete the Printer from Print Fax Preferences then re-add the printer. Please let me know what driver version it is saying under the General tab? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:59 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes its updated to 10.6.1 this morning and printer is connected via USB - it was before the SL installation and it worked ok. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 1:53 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Is the Printer connected to your mac by USB or how? And have you updated to 10.6.1? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:45 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, No, I can get into the Options + Supplies window which has 3 tabs: General, Driver + Supply Levels Clicking on Driver shows the information: Print using: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 (not highlighted but grey) It won't let me scroll for other drivers. It also has the comment: The driver and optional hardware settings for shared printers can not be modified. So earlier I changed the option in Sharing to printer sharing off. But it didn't change anything. Thanks Cheers, Walter As I said before its just the name of the printer On 20/09/2009, at 1:29 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Are you saying you can't click Options Supplies to show the Printer Driver you are using? On 20/09/2009, at 1:21 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, It shows: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740. Its shaded - not highlighted I had a look this morning trying to find the driver description, but because the description is the name of the printer I dismissed it. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 12:36 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, System Preferences Print Fax - select your Printer, then click on Options Supplies General - Driver version Also what does it say under Driver Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 12:31 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes I meant PrintJobMgr. I had already peviously cleared the jobs queued - it still would not print. How can I tell which driver I'm using ? Thanks for your reply, Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 11:40 , Ronda Brown wrote: On 20/09/2009, at 10:46 AM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hello all, Have today installed SL with 10.6.1 upgrade to follow. So far haven't noticed any problems - except the printer won't work anymore. The printer is listed + selected in the print/fax preference window and the driver is listed in the Apple list. But when it comes to printing the alert The process PrintJobMgs stopped unexpectedly with status 255 Any suggestions what to do ? Printer: Epson Stylus Color 740 Hello Walter, I think you mean PrintJobMgr not Mgs Are you using the Gutenprint v5.2.3 driver or an Epson Driver from Epson website? Check if you have any print jobs queued. System Preferences Print Fax - select your printer - then Open Print Queue If there are any jobs listed ... delete them. Then see if you can print. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: SL upgrade
Start harassing Epson. I am having to do the same with HP !!! On 20/09/2009, at 10:46 AM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hello all, Have today installed SL with 10.6.1 upgrade to follow. So far haven't noticed any problems - except the printer won't work anymore. The printer is listed + selected in the print/fax preference window and the driver is listed in the Apple list. But when it comes to printing the alert The process PrintJobMgs stopped unexpectedly with status 255 Any suggestions what to do ? Printer: Epson Stylus Color 740 Thanks Walter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Regards, Stephen Chape -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: SL upgrade
Hi Walter, I'm pretty sure that is not the latest driver for your printer to work in Snow Leopard. Did you install the Epson Printer Drivers from Snow Leopard disc? Have you run Software Update to see if it has an updated driver for your Printer? Let me know the answer to above before you delete re-add the printer. I think you need to Delete the printer from Print Fax System Preferences, then re-add the printer. When you click on + (to add the Printer) If your Epson Color 740 shows, select it to see its settings. If your mac has the correct driver, it displays in the Print using popup menu. If no driver appears, choose Select a Driver to use a driver already installed on your Mac. A list then appears for you to choose from. Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 2:13 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, It says Driver version: 1.0 Thanks Walter On 20/09/2009, at 2:06 , Ronda Brown wrote: Ok thanks Walter, Before I suggest you delete the Printer from Print Fax Preferences then re-add the printer. Please let me know what driver version it is saying under the General tab? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:59 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes its updated to 10.6.1 this morning and printer is connected via USB - it was before the SL installation and it worked ok. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 1:53 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Is the Printer connected to your mac by USB or how? And have you updated to 10.6.1? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:45 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, No, I can get into the Options + Supplies window which has 3 tabs: General, Driver + Supply Levels Clicking on Driver shows the information: Print using: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 (not highlighted but grey) It won't let me scroll for other drivers. It also has the comment: The driver and optional hardware settings for shared printers can not be modified. So earlier I changed the option in Sharing to printer sharing off. But it didn't change anything. Thanks Cheers, Walter As I said before its just the name of the printer On 20/09/2009, at 1:29 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Are you saying you can't click Options Supplies to show the Printer Driver you are using? On 20/09/2009, at 1:21 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, It shows: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740. Its shaded - not highlighted I had a look this morning trying to find the driver description, but because the description is the name of the printer I dismissed it. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 12:36 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, System Preferences Print Fax - select your Printer, then click on Options Supplies General - Driver version Also what does it say under Driver Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 12:31 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes I meant PrintJobMgr. I had already peviously cleared the jobs queued - it still would not print. How can I tell which driver I'm using ? Thanks for your reply, Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 11:40 , Ronda Brown wrote: On 20/09/2009, at 10:46 AM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hello all, Have today installed SL with 10.6.1 upgrade to follow. So far haven't noticed any problems - except the printer won't work anymore. The printer is listed + selected in the print/fax preference window and the driver is listed in the Apple list. But when it comes to printing the alert The process PrintJobMgs stopped unexpectedly with status 255 Any suggestions what to do ? Printer: Epson Stylus Color 740 Hello Walter, I think you mean PrintJobMgr not Mgs Are you using the Gutenprint v5.2.3 driver or an Epson Driver from Epson website? Check if you have any print jobs queued. System Preferences Print Fax - select your printer - then Open Print Queue If there are any jobs listed ... delete them. Then see if you can print. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: SL upgrade
Hi Ronni, No, I thought the driver installs itself, since it is listed in the large Apple list released on this topic. Apple software update was checked this morning.(and its all current) But Epson SW update was not - don't know if they have this service for this old printer ? Thanks Walter On 20/09/2009, at 2:32 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, I'm pretty sure that is not the latest driver for your printer to work in Snow Leopard. Did you install the Epson Printer Drivers from Snow Leopard disc? Have you run Software Update to see if it has an updated driver for your Printer? Let me know the answer to above before you delete re-add the printer. I think you need to Delete the printer from Print Fax System Preferences, then re-add the printer. When you click on + (to add the Printer) If your Epson Color 740 shows, select it to see its settings. If your mac has the correct driver, it displays in the Print using popup menu. If no driver appears, choose Select a Driver to use a driver already installed on your Mac. A list then appears for you to choose from. Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 2:13 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, It says Driver version: 1.0 Thanks Walter On 20/09/2009, at 2:06 , Ronda Brown wrote: Ok thanks Walter, Before I suggest you delete the Printer from Print Fax Preferences then re-add the printer. Please let me know what driver version it is saying under the General tab? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:59 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes its updated to 10.6.1 this morning and printer is connected via USB - it was before the SL installation and it worked ok. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 1:53 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Is the Printer connected to your mac by USB or how? And have you updated to 10.6.1? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:45 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, No, I can get into the Options + Supplies window which has 3 tabs: General, Driver + Supply Levels Clicking on Driver shows the information: Print using: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 (not highlighted but grey) It won't let me scroll for other drivers. It also has the comment: The driver and optional hardware settings for shared printers can not be modified. So earlier I changed the option in Sharing to printer sharing off. But it didn't change anything. Thanks Cheers, Walter As I said before its just the name of the printer On 20/09/2009, at 1:29 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Are you saying you can't click Options Supplies to show the Printer Driver you are using? On 20/09/2009, at 1:21 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, It shows: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740. Its shaded - not highlighted I had a look this morning trying to find the driver description, but because the description is the name of the printer I dismissed it. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 12:36 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, System Preferences Print Fax - select your Printer, then click on Options Supplies General - Driver version Also what does it say under Driver Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 12:31 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes I meant PrintJobMgr. I had already peviously cleared the jobs queued - it still would not print. How can I tell which driver I'm using ? Thanks for your reply, Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 11:40 , Ronda Brown wrote: On 20/09/2009, at 10:46 AM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hello all, Have today installed SL with 10.6.1 upgrade to follow. So far haven't noticed any problems - except the printer won't work anymore. The printer is listed + selected in the print/fax preference window and the driver is listed in the Apple list. But when it comes to printing the alert The process PrintJobMgs stopped unexpectedly with status 255 Any suggestions what to do ? Printer: Epson Stylus Color 740 Hello Walter, I think you mean PrintJobMgr not Mgs Are you using the Gutenprint v5.2.3 driver or an Epson Driver from Epson website? Check if you have any print jobs queued. System Preferences Print Fax - select your printer - then Open Print Queue If there are any jobs listed ... delete them. Then see if you can print. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: SL upgrade
Hi Walter, The Apple list only gives the Epson Stylus Color 740 - Gutenprint v5.2.3 driver. Try deleting the Printer and re-add the printer: 1. Click on the - button to delete the printer 2. When you click on + (to add the Printer) If your Epson Color 740 shows, select it to see its settings. If your mac has the correct driver, it displays in the Print using popup menu. If no driver appears, choose Select a Driver to use a driver already installed on your Mac. A list then appears for you to choose from. 3. Click Add when done Let me know what Drivers it shows for your Epson Stylus Color 740. If you are still unable to print Reset the Printing System, then re- add the printer To Reset Printing System ... Control click (right click) on your Printer in the left column of System Preferences Print Fax select Rest Printing System. Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 2:42 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, No, I thought the driver installs itself, since it is listed in the large Apple list released on this topic. Apple software update was checked this morning.(and its all current) But Epson SW update was not - don't know if they have this service for this old printer ? Thanks Walter On 20/09/2009, at 2:32 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, I'm pretty sure that is not the latest driver for your printer to work in Snow Leopard. Did you install the Epson Printer Drivers from Snow Leopard disc? Have you run Software Update to see if it has an updated driver for your Printer? Let me know the answer to above before you delete re-add the printer. I think you need to Delete the printer from Print Fax System Preferences, then re-add the printer. When you click on + (to add the Printer) If your Epson Color 740 shows, select it to see its settings. If your mac has the correct driver, it displays in the Print using popup menu. If no driver appears, choose Select a Driver to use a driver already installed on your Mac. A list then appears for you to choose from. Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 2:13 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, It says Driver version: 1.0 Thanks Walter On 20/09/2009, at 2:06 , Ronda Brown wrote: Ok thanks Walter, Before I suggest you delete the Printer from Print Fax Preferences then re-add the printer. Please let me know what driver version it is saying under the General tab? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:59 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes its updated to 10.6.1 this morning and printer is connected via USB - it was before the SL installation and it worked ok. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 1:53 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Is the Printer connected to your mac by USB or how? And have you updated to 10.6.1? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:45 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, No, I can get into the Options + Supplies window which has 3 tabs: General, Driver + Supply Levels Clicking on Driver shows the information: Print using: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 (not highlighted but grey) It won't let me scroll for other drivers. It also has the comment: The driver and optional hardware settings for shared printers can not be modified. So earlier I changed the option in Sharing to printer sharing off. But it didn't change anything. Thanks Cheers, Walter As I said before its just the name of the printer On 20/09/2009, at 1:29 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Are you saying you can't click Options Supplies to show the Printer Driver you are using? On 20/09/2009, at 1:21 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, It shows: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740. Its shaded - not highlighted I had a look this morning trying to find the driver description, but because the description is the name of the printer I dismissed it. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 12:36 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, System Preferences Print Fax - select your Printer, then click on Options Supplies General - Driver version Also what does it say under Driver Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 12:31 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes I meant PrintJobMgr. I had already peviously cleared the jobs queued - it still would not print. How can I tell which driver I'm using ? Thanks for your reply, Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 11:40 , Ronda Brown wrote: On 20/09/2009, at 10:46 AM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hello all, Have today installed SL with 10.6.1 upgrade to follow. So far haven't noticed any problems - except the printer won't work anymore. The printer is listed + selected in the print/fax preference window and the driver is listed in the Apple list. But when it comes to printing the alert The process PrintJobMgs stopped unexpectedly with status 255 Any suggestions what to do ? Printer: Epson Stylus Color 740 Hello Walter, I think you mean PrintJobMgr not Mgs Are you using the Gutenprint v5.2.3 driver or an Epson Driver from Epson website? Check if you have any print jobs queued. System Preferences
Re: SL upgrade
Hi Ronni, Yes, that did it. And the Printer was shown under driver as Epson Stylus Color 740 - Gutenprint v5.2.3. Just one final question. Where do the hundreds of unwanted drivers reside on the HD ? I'm thinking of deleting most of them. Thank you very much for your time, Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 2:58 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, The Apple list only gives the Epson Stylus Color 740 - Gutenprint v5.2.3 driver. Try deleting the Printer and re-add the printer: 1. Click on the - button to delete the printer 2. When you click on + (to add the Printer) If your Epson Color 740 shows, select it to see its settings. If your mac has the correct driver, it displays in the Print using popup menu. If no driver appears, choose Select a Driver to use a driver already installed on your Mac. A list then appears for you to choose from. 3. Click Add when done Let me know what Drivers it shows for your Epson Stylus Color 740. If you are still unable to print Reset the Printing System, then re-add the printer To Reset Printing System ... Control click (right click) on your Printer in the left column of System Preferences Print Fax select Rest Printing System. Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 2:42 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, No, I thought the driver installs itself, since it is listed in the large Apple list released on this topic. Apple software update was checked this morning.(and its all current) But Epson SW update was not - don't know if they have this service for this old printer ? Thanks Walter On 20/09/2009, at 2:32 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, I'm pretty sure that is not the latest driver for your printer to work in Snow Leopard. Did you install the Epson Printer Drivers from Snow Leopard disc? Have you run Software Update to see if it has an updated driver for your Printer? Let me know the answer to above before you delete re-add the printer. I think you need to Delete the printer from Print Fax System Preferences, then re-add the printer. When you click on + (to add the Printer) If your Epson Color 740 shows, select it to see its settings. If your mac has the correct driver, it displays in the Print using popup menu. If no driver appears, choose Select a Driver to use a driver already installed on your Mac. A list then appears for you to choose from. Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 2:13 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, It says Driver version: 1.0 Thanks Walter On 20/09/2009, at 2:06 , Ronda Brown wrote: Ok thanks Walter, Before I suggest you delete the Printer from Print Fax Preferences then re-add the printer. Please let me know what driver version it is saying under the General tab? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:59 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes its updated to 10.6.1 this morning and printer is connected via USB - it was before the SL installation and it worked ok. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 1:53 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Is the Printer connected to your mac by USB or how? And have you updated to 10.6.1? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:45 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, No, I can get into the Options + Supplies window which has 3 tabs: General, Driver + Supply Levels Clicking on Driver shows the information: Print using: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 (not highlighted but grey) It won't let me scroll for other drivers. It also has the comment: The driver and optional hardware settings for shared printers can not be modified. So earlier I changed the option in Sharing to printer sharing off. But it didn't change anything. Thanks Cheers, Walter As I said before its just the name of the printer On 20/09/2009, at 1:29 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Are you saying you can't click Options Supplies to show the Printer Driver you are using? On 20/09/2009, at 1:21 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, It shows: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740. Its shaded - not highlighted I had a look this morning trying to find the driver description, but because the description is the name of the printer I dismissed it. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 12:36 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, System Preferences Print Fax - select your Printer, then click on Options Supplies General - Driver version Also what does it say under Driver Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 12:31 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes I meant PrintJobMgr. I had already peviously cleared the jobs queued - it still would not print. How can I tell which driver I'm using ? Thanks for your reply, Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 11:40 , Ronda Brown wrote: On 20/09/2009, at 10:46 AM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hello all, Have today installed SL with 10.6.1 upgrade to follow. So far haven't noticed any problems - except the printer won't work anymore. The printer is listed + selected in the print/fax preference window and the driver is listed in the Apple list. But when it comes
Re: SL upgrade
Hi Walter, You're welcome, good to hear you are printing again :-) In the past, the default option was to install a whole boatload of printer drivers, though you could deselect one or more brands of printer that you didn’t expect to use. Now, by default, in Snow Leopard the installer copies to your disk only the drivers for printers you’ve previously used and those it can see attached to your computer or on your local network, plus drivers for a modest selection of popular printers. (This change is the biggest reason Snow Leopard uses less disk space than Leopard, although the actual space savings depends on how many printer drivers you had installed previously.) If you later encounter a new printer, Mac OS X downloads and installs the correct driver as needed. You can check what Printer Drivers you have installed on your Mac by going to HD Library Printers Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 3:30 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes, that did it. And the Printer was shown under driver as Epson Stylus Color 740 - Gutenprint v5.2.3. Just one final question. Where do the hundreds of unwanted drivers reside on the HD ? I'm thinking of deleting most of them. Thank you very much for your time, Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 2:58 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, The Apple list only gives the Epson Stylus Color 740 - Gutenprint v5.2.3 driver. Try deleting the Printer and re-add the printer: 1. Click on the - button to delete the printer 2. When you click on + (to add the Printer) If your Epson Color 740 shows, select it to see its settings. If your mac has the correct driver, it displays in the Print using popup menu. If no driver appears, choose Select a Driver to use a driver already installed on your Mac. A list then appears for you to choose from. 3. Click Add when done Let me know what Drivers it shows for your Epson Stylus Color 740. If you are still unable to print Reset the Printing System, then re-add the printer To Reset Printing System ... Control click (right click) on your Printer in the left column of System Preferences Print Fax select Rest Printing System. Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 2:42 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, No, I thought the driver installs itself, since it is listed in the large Apple list released on this topic. Apple software update was checked this morning.(and its all current) But Epson SW update was not - don't know if they have this service for this old printer ? Thanks Walter On 20/09/2009, at 2:32 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, I'm pretty sure that is not the latest driver for your printer to work in Snow Leopard. Did you install the Epson Printer Drivers from Snow Leopard disc? Have you run Software Update to see if it has an updated driver for your Printer? Let me know the answer to above before you delete re-add the printer. I think you need to Delete the printer from Print Fax System Preferences, then re-add the printer. When you click on + (to add the Printer) If your Epson Color 740 shows, select it to see its settings. If your mac has the correct driver, it displays in the Print using popup menu. If no driver appears, choose Select a Driver to use a driver already installed on your Mac. A list then appears for you to choose from. Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 2:13 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, It says Driver version: 1.0 Thanks Walter On 20/09/2009, at 2:06 , Ronda Brown wrote: Ok thanks Walter, Before I suggest you delete the Printer from Print Fax Preferences then re-add the printer. Please let me know what driver version it is saying under the General tab? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:59 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, Yes its updated to 10.6.1 this morning and printer is connected via USB - it was before the SL installation and it worked ok. Cheers, Walter On 20/09/2009, at 1:53 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Is the Printer connected to your mac by USB or how? And have you updated to 10.6.1? Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 1:45 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, No, I can get into the Options + Supplies window which has 3 tabs: General, Driver + Supply Levels Clicking on Driver shows the information: Print using: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740 (not highlighted but grey) It won't let me scroll for other drivers. It also has the comment: The driver and optional hardware settings for shared printers can not be modified. So earlier I changed the option in Sharing to printer sharing off. But it didn't change anything. Thanks Cheers, Walter As I said before its just the name of the printer On 20/09/2009, at 1:29 , Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Walter, Are you saying you can't click Options Supplies to show the Printer Driver you are using? On 20/09/2009, at 1:21 PM, F.W. Hänel wrote: Hi Ronni, It shows: EPSON Stylus COLOR 740. Its shaded - not highlighted I had a look this morning trying to
transferring movie clips
Afternoon all, I have been trying to transfer some iMovie Events from an external BackUp HD to a portable HD, some of them copy across OK but others come up with the following error message: The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code 0). The ones that are the problem all seem to be .dv files. Opening them wit QT and saving as any other format fails. Any suggestions? Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Faxing in Leopard
I need to send faxes on an occasional basis from my G5 (10.5.8) and have been doing this by sharing the internal modem in my wife's G3 iMac which is networked via the usual arrangement with an ethernet router. This works fine but has a degree of inconvenience. To overcome that I purchased a neat Apple USB external modem which is plugged into a powered USB hub and is showing up correctly in System Profiler (drawing 50mA of the 500mA available). The phone cable that was plugged into the iMac is now plugged into the modem so the phone side is unchanged. When sending a fax in the usual way all seems normal and the Dialling... Dialling... message shows in the Menu Bar. This just goes on and apparently times out and the fax reverts to hold. I have tested this to known not engaged, functional numbers. It is in fact dialling, if I pretend to send a fax to my own mobile, it rings. Apparently it is unable to initiate a pick up and connect. I can find nothing of help in settings for network or modem nor at Apple Support. I have not tried plugging directly in to USB port rather than a hub, cable lengths and layout make this difficult for a quick try. Any advice on this Sunday afternoon puzzler would be welcome. Severin Crisp Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia. Phone (08) 9842 1950 (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950) email mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: transferring movie clips
On 20/09/2009, at 4:13 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Afternoon all, I have been trying to transfer some iMovie Events from an external BackUp HD to a portable HD, some of them copy across OK but others come up with the following error message: The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code 0). The ones that are the problem all seem to be .dv files. Opening them wit QT and saving as any other format fails. Any suggestions? Hello Adrian, What format is the Portable HD? Your external hard drive to hold video files in a format that iMovie likes ... it has to be (Mac OSX Extended - Journaled) You don't say what version of iMovie that you are trying to move the Events. iMovie ’08: Moving iMovie footage to another drive: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1026 Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: transferring movie clips
Thanks Ronni, it occurred to me minutes after I posted that the disk format may be the problem so I formatted it Mac OSX Extended - Journaled and it is transferring OK now. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 20/09/2009, at 4:43 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 20/09/2009, at 4:13 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Afternoon all, I have been trying to transfer some iMovie Events from an external BackUp HD to a portable HD, some of them copy across OK but others come up with the following error message: The operation can’t be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code 0). The ones that are the problem all seem to be .dv files. Opening them wit QT and saving as any other format fails. Any suggestions? Hello Adrian, What format is the Portable HD? Your external hard drive to hold video files in a format that iMovie likes ... it has to be (Mac OSX Extended - Journaled) You don't say what version of iMovie that you are trying to move the Events. iMovie ’08: Moving iMovie footage to another drive: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1026 Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Faxing in Leopard
On 20/09/2009, at 4:41 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I need to send faxes on an occasional basis from my G5 (10.5.8) and have been doing this by sharing the internal modem in my wife's G3 iMac which is networked via the usual arrangement with an ethernet router. This works fine but has a degree of inconvenience. To overcome that I purchased a neat Apple USB external modem which is plugged into a powered USB hub and is showing up correctly in System Profiler (drawing 50mA of the 500mA available). The phone cable that was plugged into the iMac is now plugged into the modem so the phone side is unchanged. When sending a fax in the usual way all seems normal and the Dialling... Dialling... message shows in the Menu Bar. This just goes on and apparently times out and the fax reverts to hold. I have tested this to known not engaged, functional numbers. It is in fact dialling, if I pretend to send a fax to my own mobile, it rings. Apparently it is unable to initiate a pick up and connect. I can find nothing of help in settings for network or modem nor at Apple Support. I have not tried plugging directly in to USB port rather than a hub, cable lengths and layout make this difficult for a quick try. Any advice on this Sunday afternoon puzzler would be welcome. Severin Crisp Hello Severin, Lots of people experiencing Fax sending problems in OS X 10.5.8 on Apple Discussions Printing, faxing and scanning. Some solutions might work for you here: http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?objID=f1224search=Goq=Apple+USB+external+modem Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Faxing in Leopard
Hi Severin, Did you try one of the suggestions just to get your Fax sent: Each time you want to send a fax you need to go into System Preferences, Print Fax, choose External Modem, click on Receive Options, then untick Receive Faxes – then you can switch to the document you want to fax and print it. Once the fax has fully completed, you have to go back and re-tick Receive Faxes. If you have Receive Faxes ticked in System Preferences when you are trying to send a fax, it causes the fax queue to hang and only a reboot can resolve the issue. Simply deleting the job from the queue does nothing. We are using the official Apple USB Modem and latest software in a medical clinic, so the fax is very important to us. Applecare has assured us the issue is being working on – who can tell when it will be resolved. Cheers, Ronni On 20/09/2009, at 5:18 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 20/09/2009, at 4:41 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: I need to send faxes on an occasional basis from my G5 (10.5.8) and have been doing this by sharing the internal modem in my wife's G3 iMac which is networked via the usual arrangement with an ethernet router. This works fine but has a degree of inconvenience. To overcome that I purchased a neat Apple USB external modem which is plugged into a powered USB hub and is showing up correctly in System Profiler (drawing 50mA of the 500mA available). The phone cable that was plugged into the iMac is now plugged into the modem so the phone side is unchanged. When sending a fax in the usual way all seems normal and the Dialling... Dialling... message shows in the Menu Bar. This just goes on and apparently times out and the fax reverts to hold. I have tested this to known not engaged, functional numbers. It is in fact dialling, if I pretend to send a fax to my own mobile, it rings. Apparently it is unable to initiate a pick up and connect. I can find nothing of help in settings for network or modem nor at Apple Support. I have not tried plugging directly in to USB port rather than a hub, cable lengths and layout make this difficult for a quick try. Any advice on this Sunday afternoon puzzler would be welcome. Severin Crisp Hello Severin, Lots of people experiencing Fax sending problems in OS X 10.5.8 on Apple Discussions Printing, faxing and scanning. Some solutions might work for you here: http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?objID=f1224search=Goq=Apple+USB+external+modem Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
message from Discus.
As a registered user of Discus, I received a mailout which addressed problems with Discus and operating systems. Interesting? The following is the message received At 1:18 AM + 20/9/09, discus world users wrote: Discus User Alert Dear registered Discus user, we have seen a flurry of tech support inquiries in recent weeks about compatibility with Macintosh OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and also Windows users calling about quicktime issues if they install iTunes 9, as well as information about the upcoming Windows 7 system. Rest assured that whenever a major system change occurs, we will make any necessary changes to Discus immediately and post a new version on our website at www.magicmouse.com under the Download Updates section. The latest Discus version is 4.24. To our knowledge Discus 4 appears to be running fine. We are seeing huge numbers of problems with Snow Leopard in general however as Apple really bungled their recent release. Apple had to rush out a service pack (6.1) to prevent a riot, and many defects remain. If your livelihood depends on smooth functioning of your Macintosh, please avoid installing Snow Leopard until 6.2 is released. Snow 6.0 almost completely ruined printing. If you have already installed Snow, be sure to download the latest versions of printer drivers, many companies like Epson updated their drivers after Snow shipped, and some like DYMO have not yet released Snow drivers. We are old hands at computers, going back to the punch card era, and can state with authority that if you value your time and would like to avoid unnecessary frustration in your life, we recommend that you NOT UPGRADE TO ANY NEW OPERATING SYSTEM UNTIL SIX MONTHS HAVE PASSED. The trusting people who recently purchased Apple's Snow Leopard and immediately installed it were greeted with hundreds of terrible bugs. It was reckless of Apple not to test their system more thoroughly before releasing it to millions of paying customers. When you immediately upgrade to a major new operating system version you are basically volunteering to be an unpaid tester for the supplier. Unlike bran muffins fresh operating system versions are not better - they are more like wine which benefits from age. Operating systems are among the most complex projects ever attempted with hundreds if not thousands of man years of work inside, and every major system shipping today went out the door with tens of thousands of known defects. Both Apple and Microsoft have a bug tracking system and the managers at Apple and Microsoft know full well that their products are riddled with defects but market forces dictate that they ship on a fixed calendar schedule regardless of the consequences to the customer, and if they waited until the product was flawless it would never ship at all. Approximately 35% of the laptops containing Vista were downgraded to XP. And this is after an entire year of vista on the street. There are two places you can be in the computer world - the bleeding edge and the trailing edge, and we recommend to all our customers to buy proven hardware technologies that are least two years old and try to stay behind in operating systems until you start to hit problems because you are too far behind. When you stay behind a bit you enjoy low prices, complete reliability, and lots of technical help. Regards, The Discus Support Team Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today
Hi Guys, Just a heads up Vmware Fusion 2.0.5 is US$34.95 till 11.30AM Monday 21 September at this site: http://www.mupromo.com/deal/960/4438/vmware-fusion this is quite a saving if you¹re in the market for Fusion/Parallels. Chris. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: message from Discus.
Hi Kevin, Yes, I received this negative email from Discus. I don't agree with their assessment of Snow Leopard. The majority of problems people are having are caused by not doing the preparation before upgrading their System, and other Vendor's software, add-ons, plugins , etc. It is not up to Apple to make sure non-apple software is compatible with Snow Leopard it is up to the Vendor. Most major software companies were very quick to release Snow Leopard compatible version of their software. This comment: The trusting people who recently purchased Apple's Snow Leopard and immediately installed it were greeted with hundreds of terrible bugs. It was reckless of Apple not to test their system more thoroughly before releasing it to millions of paying customers. Apple not to test their system more thoroughly before releasing it to millions of paying customers what a load of rubbish that is! Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard is designed to protect your Mac from certain incompatible software that can quit unexpectedly or cause other issues in Mac OS X v10.6. When you install Snow Leopard or migrate to Snow Leopard, known- incompatible software is moved to a folder named Incompatible Software on your hard drive. Snow Leopard also prevents known-incompatible software from opening. If you see an Incompatible software message, contact the software's vendor or visit their website for a later, compatible version. Apple certainly with Snow Leopard, have protected people from using incompatible software. Cheers, Ronni On 21/09/2009, at 7:55 AM, KEVIN Lock wrote: As a registered user of Discus, I received a mailout which addressed problems with Discus and operating systems. Interesting? The following is the message received At 1:18 AM + 20/9/09, discus world users wrote: Discus User Alert Dear registered Discus user, we have seen a flurry of tech support inquiries in recent weeks about compatibility with Macintosh OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and also Windows users calling about quicktime issues if they install iTunes 9, as well as information about the upcoming Windows 7 system. Rest assured that whenever a major system change occurs, we will make any necessary changes to Discus immediately and post a new version on our website at www.magicmouse.com under the Download Updates section. The latest Discus version is 4.24. To our knowledge Discus 4 appears to be running fine. We are seeing huge numbers of problems with Snow Leopard in general however as Apple really bungled their recent release. Apple had to rush out a service pack (6.1) to prevent a riot, and many defects remain. If your livelihood depends on smooth functioning of your Macintosh, please avoid installing Snow Leopard until 6.2 is released. Snow 6.0 almost completely ruined printing. If you have already installed Snow, be sure to download the latest versions of printer drivers, many companies like Epson updated their drivers after Snow shipped, and some like DYMO have not yet released Snow drivers. We are old hands at computers, going back to the punch card era, and can state with authority that if you value your time and would like to avoid unnecessary frustration in your life, we recommend that you NOT UPGRADE TO ANY NEW OPERATING SYSTEM UNTIL SIX MONTHS HAVE PASSED. The trusting people who recently purchased Apple's Snow Leopard and immediately installed it were greeted with hundreds of terrible bugs. It was reckless of Apple not to test their system more thoroughly before releasing it to millions of paying customers. When you immediately upgrade to a major new operating system version you are basically volunteering to be an unpaid tester for the supplier. Unlike bran muffins fresh operating system versions are not better - they are more like wine which benefits from age. Operating systems are among the most complex projects ever attempted with hundreds if not thousands of man years of work inside, and every major system shipping today went out the door with tens of thousands of known defects. Both Apple and Microsoft have a bug tracking system and the managers at Apple and Microsoft know full well that their products are riddled with defects but market forces dictate that they ship on a fixed calendar schedule regardless of the consequences to the customer, and if they waited until the product was flawless it would never ship at all. Approximately 35% of the laptops containing Vista were downgraded to XP. And this is after an entire year of vista on the street. There are two places you can be in the computer world - the bleeding edge and the trailing edge, and we recommend to all our customers to buy proven hardware technologies that are least two years old and try to stay behind in operating systems until you start to hit problems because you are too far behind. When you stay behind
Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today
Hi I need to run windoze for a couple of applications that can't be run on a Mac and currently use a small windows laptop. Now that I've bought a intel Mac I intend to run windoze on it but haven't got around to choosing which program to use. This email suggests now might be the time to make up my mind. The question is: Is VMWare Fusion a reasonable program to use for someone who wants to run a couple of windoze programs on their Mac? or should I be more careful in choosing what program I use? Thanks in anticipation. Regards Peter On 21/09/2009, at 9:38 AM, Christopher S wrote: Hi Guys, Just a heads up Vmware Fusion 2.0.5 is US$34.95 till 11.30AM Monday 21 September at this site: http://www.mupromo.com/deal/960/4438/vmware-fusion this is quite a saving if you’re in the market for Fusion/Parallels. Chris. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today
Hi Peter I've used the current versions of Parallels and Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox (which is free) and they are all pretty good virtual machines. Unless you are talking the latest Windows games I would think any of the above would be fine for most apps. Games may run best in Fusion but BootCamp is probably the better option - that is of course debatable. There is a big caveat with all three and that is that you need to own a copy of Windows to install in the virtual machine. If it's only a couple of apps that you need like the ATO Tax App then I'd probably suggest Sun's VirtualBox. Regards, Chris. From: Peter Curtis pcur...@aapt.net.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:57:06 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today Hi I need to run windoze for a couple of applications that can't be run on a Mac and currently use a small windows laptop. Now that I've bought a intel Mac I intend to run windoze on it but haven't got around to choosing which program to use. This email suggests now might be the time to make up my mind. The question is: Is VMWare Fusion a reasonable program to use for someone who wants to run a couple of windoze programs on their Mac? or should I be more careful in choosing what program I use? Thanks in anticipation. Regards Peter On 21/09/2009, at 9:38 AM, Christopher S wrote: Hi Guys, Just a heads up Vmware Fusion 2.0.5 is US$34.95 till 11.30AM Monday 21 September at this site: http://www.mupromo.com/deal/960/4438/vmware-fusion this is quite a saving if you¹re in the market for Fusion/Parallels. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today
Hi Peter, Out of interest, did you use all three just to compare the different applications - or do you use different VMs for different tasks. What, if any, would you rate as the particular pros/cons or points of difference of the three approaches - other than the obvious cost advantage of Sun's VirtualBox. I've only ever run Parallels 3.0 - just because it seemed to be the one everyone recommended at the time that I purchased it - I had a lot of trouble at the time upgrading my XP Pro VM (imported from Virtual PC) to SP2 but once I got that sorted (thank you Peter Hinchcliffe!) it seems to do OK so I didn't look any further. However, I suppose that at some point (SL upgrade?) I will need to look at upgrading from Parallels 3.0 - so I suppose that will be a good time to also look at the alternatives. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/9/09 10:12 AM, Christopher S at c...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Peter I've used the current versions of Parallels and Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox (which is free) and they are all pretty good virtual machines. Unless you are talking the latest Windows games I would think any of the above would be fine for most apps. Games may run best in Fusion but BootCamp is probably the better option - that is of course debatable. There is a big caveat with all three and that is that you need to own a copy of Windows to install in the virtual machine. If it's only a couple of apps that you need like the ATO Tax App then I'd probably suggest Sun's VirtualBox. Regards, Chris. From: Peter Curtis pcur...@aapt.net.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:57:06 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today Hi I need to run windoze for a couple of applications that can't be run on a Mac and currently use a small windows laptop. Now that I've bought a intel Mac I intend to run windoze on it but haven't got around to choosing which program to use. This email suggests now might be the time to make up my mind. The question is: Is VMWare Fusion a reasonable program to use for someone who wants to run a couple of windoze programs on their Mac? or should I be more careful in choosing what program I use? Thanks in anticipation. Regards Peter On 21/09/2009, at 9:38 AM, Christopher S wrote: Hi Guys, Just a heads up Vmware Fusion 2.0.5 is US$34.95 till 11.30AM Monday 21 September at this site: http://www.mupromo.com/deal/960/4438/vmware-fusion this is quite a saving if you¹re in the market for Fusion/Parallels. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today
Hi Chris Thanks for your response. The main program I run is OziExplorer and another minor mapping programs. Do you need to buy Windows for all the programs? and if so, would I be better off buying XP the same as I use at the moment or the latest system. Regards Peter On 21/09/2009, at 10:12 AM, Christopher S wrote: Hi Peter I've used the current versions of Parallels and Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox (which is free) and they are all pretty good virtual machines. Unless you are talking the latest Windows games I would think any of the above would be fine for most apps. Games may run best in Fusion but BootCamp is probably the better option - that is of course debatable. There is a big caveat with all three and that is that you need to own a copy of Windows to install in the virtual machine. If it's only a couple of apps that you need like the ATO Tax App then I'd probably suggest Sun's VirtualBox. Regards, Chris. From: Peter Curtis pcur...@aapt.net.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:57:06 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today Hi I need to run windoze for a couple of applications that can't be run on a Mac and currently use a small windows laptop. Now that I've bought a intel Mac I intend to run windoze on it but haven't got around to choosing which program to use. This email suggests now might be the time to make up my mind. The question is: Is VMWare Fusion a reasonable program to use for someone who wants to run a couple of windoze programs on their Mac? or should I be more careful in choosing what program I use? Thanks in anticipation. Regards Peter On 21/09/2009, at 9:38 AM, Christopher S wrote: Hi Guys, Just a heads up Vmware Fusion 2.0.5 is US$34.95 till 11.30AM Monday 21 September at this site: http://www.mupromo.com/deal/960/4438/vmware-fusion this is quite a saving if you’re in the market for Fusion/Parallels. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today
Hi, I would be interested to hear as Neil suggested a comparison of the three VM systems. I use Parallels v4 a lot - mainly for some music software (editors and wave manipulating that suits my needs), and run Windows Explorer just to test my web page changes run under Explorer. For SL, you need to run the latest v4, and upgrades are about US$40. I use the Parallels 'coherence' mode, which tries to make Windows applications run just work like any Mac program. In a sense they do, apart from the Window program menus are still attached to the window (rather than at the top of the screen) and the window close button in on the right (instead of the Mac on the left). Also found that the Parallels help desk very helpful and prompt. The only problem I have encountered with windows applications running Parallels, is that time critical applications (like playing music) suffer especially if you are doing internet access at the same time. This is understandable, and is not really a problem to me. I tried the pre-release versions of Win 7, and they worked well under Parallels, although I had some problems with printer drivers (sounds familiar) - but the help desk was very helpful. Also found Parallels great for playing around with versions of Linux - just out of interest to see if it is yet a serious contender to Windows or OSX. I tried VMWare but didn't feel there was anything that made me want to change. The free Sun's virtual box sounds interesting. Cheers ... Clyde On 21/09/2009, at 10:47 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Peter, Out of interest, did you use all three just to compare the different applications - or do you use different VMs for different tasks. What, if any, would you rate as the particular pros/cons or points of difference of the three approaches - other than the obvious cost advantage of Sun's VirtualBox. I've only ever run Parallels 3.0 - just because it seemed to be the one everyone recommended at the time that I purchased it - I had a lot of trouble at the time upgrading my XP Pro VM (imported from Virtual PC) to SP2 but once I got that sorted (thank you Peter Hinchcliffe!) it seems to do OK so I didn't look any further. However, I suppose that at some point (SL upgrade?) I will need to look at upgrading from Parallels 3.0 - so I suppose that will be a good time to also look at the alternatives. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/9/09 10:12 AM, Christopher S at c...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Peter I've used the current versions of Parallels and Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox (which is free) and they are all pretty good virtual machines. Unless you are talking the latest Windows games I would think any of the above would be fine for most apps. Games may run best in Fusion but BootCamp is probably the better option - that is of course debatable. There is a big caveat with all three and that is that you need to own a copy of Windows to install in the virtual machine. If it's only a couple of apps that you need like the ATO Tax App then I'd probably suggest Sun's VirtualBox. Regards, Chris. From: Peter Curtis pcur...@aapt.net.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:57:06 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today Hi I need to run windoze for a couple of applications that can't be run on a Mac and currently use a small windows laptop. Now that I've bought a intel Mac I intend to run windoze on it but haven't got around to choosing which program to use. This email suggests now might be the time to make up my mind. The question is: Is VMWare Fusion a reasonable program to use for someone who wants to run a couple of windoze programs on their Mac? or should I be more careful in choosing what program I use? Thanks in anticipation. Regards Peter On 21/09/2009, at 9:38 AM, Christopher S wrote: Hi Guys, Just a heads up Vmware Fusion 2.0.5 is US$34.95 till 11.30AM Monday 21 September at this site: http://www.mupromo.com/deal/960/4438/vmware-fusion this is quite a saving if you’re in the market for Fusion/ Parallels. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today
Sorry, this obviously should have been directed to Chris, rather than Peter. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/9/09 10:47 AM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: Hi Peter, Out of interest, did you use all three just to compare the different applications - or do you use different VMs for different tasks. What, if any, would you rate as the particular pros/cons or points of difference of the three approaches - other than the obvious cost advantage of Sun's VirtualBox. I've only ever run Parallels 3.0 - just because it seemed to be the one everyone recommended at the time that I purchased it - I had a lot of trouble at the time upgrading my XP Pro VM (imported from Virtual PC) to SP2 but once I got that sorted (thank you Peter Hinchcliffe!) it seems to do OK so I didn't look any further. However, I suppose that at some point (SL upgrade?) I will need to look at upgrading from Parallels 3.0 - so I suppose that will be a good time to also look at the alternatives. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 21/9/09 10:12 AM, Christopher S at c...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Peter I've used the current versions of Parallels and Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox (which is free) and they are all pretty good virtual machines. Unless you are talking the latest Windows games I would think any of the above would be fine for most apps. Games may run best in Fusion but BootCamp is probably the better option - that is of course debatable. There is a big caveat with all three and that is that you need to own a copy of Windows to install in the virtual machine. If it's only a couple of apps that you need like the ATO Tax App then I'd probably suggest Sun's VirtualBox. Regards, Chris. From: Peter Curtis pcur...@aapt.net.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:57:06 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today Hi I need to run windoze for a couple of applications that can't be run on a Mac and currently use a small windows laptop. Now that I've bought a intel Mac I intend to run windoze on it but haven't got around to choosing which program to use. This email suggests now might be the time to make up my mind. The question is: Is VMWare Fusion a reasonable program to use for someone who wants to run a couple of windoze programs on their Mac? or should I be more careful in choosing what program I use? Thanks in anticipation. Regards Peter On 21/09/2009, at 9:38 AM, Christopher S wrote: Hi Guys, Just a heads up Vmware Fusion 2.0.5 is US$34.95 till 11.30AM Monday 21 September at this site: http://www.mupromo.com/deal/960/4438/vmware-fusion this is quite a saving if you¹re in the market for Fusion/Parallels. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today
Peter I have found OziExplorer runs without a hitch using both VMWare fusion and Parallels with Windows XP. Barry On 21/09/2009, at 10:48 AM, Peter Curtis wrote: Hi Chris Thanks for your response. The main program I run is OziExplorer and another minor mapping programs. Do you need to buy Windows for all the programs? and if so, would I be better off buying XP the same as I use at the moment or the latest system. Regards Peter On 21/09/2009, at 10:12 AM, Christopher S wrote: Hi Peter I've used the current versions of Parallels and Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox (which is free) and they are all pretty good virtual machines. Unless you are talking the latest Windows games I would think any of the above would be fine for most apps. Games may run best in Fusion but BootCamp is probably the better option - that is of course debatable. There is a big caveat with all three and that is that you need to own a copy of Windows to install in the virtual machine. If it's only a couple of apps that you need like the ATO Tax App then I'd probably suggest Sun's VirtualBox. Regards, Chris. From: Peter Curtis pcur...@aapt.net.au Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:57:06 +0800 To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion $41 till 11.30am today Hi I need to run windoze for a couple of applications that can't be run on a Mac and currently use a small windows laptop. Now that I've bought a intel Mac I intend to run windoze on it but haven't got around to choosing which program to use. This email suggests now might be the time to make up my mind. The question is: Is VMWare Fusion a reasonable program to use for someone who wants to run a couple of windoze programs on their Mac? or should I be more careful in choosing what program I use? Thanks in anticipation. Regards Peter On 21/09/2009, at 9:38 AM, Christopher S wrote: Hi Guys, Just a heads up Vmware Fusion 2.0.5 is US$34.95 till 11.30AM Monday 21 September at this site: http://www.mupromo.com/deal/960/4438/vmware-fusion this is quite a saving if you’re in the market for Fusion/ Parallels. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
