Re: HP 5100 Laserjet driver for G4 needed
From half-gone memories, I recall: PPDs are not drivers. They are more like parameter files, informing the Laserwriter driver and the application what the printer can do and what it can't: resolution, colours, duplex, etc. As far as I know they have a fixed syntax, but there are special versions that include extra parameters to serve the possibilities of a particular program, e.g. PageMaker. Often desktop publishing programs came with a collection of PPDs. I think the main problems you can get when you use a different printer's PPD are wrong colours or screens. If you like, let me know to which extent this fits with your experience. Op woensdag 5 december 2012 00:25:42 UTC+1 schreef glenstrek het volgende: The installation installed many LaserJet PPD's including the LaserJet 5100. So I'm good. On a side note I tried tried another PPD from a GCC XL/1200 1200 dpi printer. The HP 5100 replaced an aging GCC XL/1200 another monochrome printer. The GCC PDD gave me the necessary features as well. I assume both PPD's were written in the same language. I think it is Adobe Postscript 4 (point something) -- 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: HP 5100 Laserjet driver for G4 needed
On Dec 5, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Geke gevangaste...@gmail.com wrote: From half-gone memories, I recall: PPDs are not drivers. They are more like parameter files, informing the Laserwriter driver and the application what the printer can do and what it can't: resolution, colours, duplex, etc. As far as I know they have a fixed syntax, but there are special versions that include extra parameters to serve the possibilities of a particular program, e.g. PageMaker. Often desktop publishing programs came with a collection of PPDs. PPD's are 'Postscript Printer Description' files. Postscript is the printer driver; the PPD tells the driver what the printer can do. The Desktop Printers introduced in LaserWriter 8 built printer drivers this way; this is also how OS X does it, which is why, sometiomes, you can extract PPD's out of OS X printer drivers and use them in LW8. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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: imac g5 help needed asap
Den Tirsdag, 4/12 2012, 09:43, jayson skinner skrev: i just bought a used 2004 imac g5 desktop and i dont know what to do. hears my problem. when i plug the power, keyboard and mouse in and press the power button the screen will either start up with the chime but stay black. you can kinda, almost not at all, hear something getting power to it. after about a minute or so you can hear that the fans have started up and are at full speed. the mouse will light up but the keyboard wont. idk what to do. i just bought this from a friends friend that said it just needs an os for it, but idk but any and all help will be greatly appriciated. thanks FWIW ? i had one behave exactly like this when I tried to boot it from a cd, and with no memory and harddrive installed good luck /tina -- 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: imac g5 help needed asap
Den Torsdag, 6/12 2012, 01:57, t...@nehaia.dk skrev: Den Tirsdag, 4/12 2012, 09:43, jayson skinner skrev: i just bought a used 2004 imac g5 desktop and i dont know what to do. hears my problem. when i plug the power, keyboard and mouse in and press the power button the screen will either start up with the chime but stay black. you can kinda, almost not at all, hear something getting power to it. after about a minute or so you can hear that the fans have started up and are at full speed. the mouse will light up but the keyboard wont. idk what to do. i just bought this from a friends friend that said it just needs an os for it, but idk but any and all help will be greatly appriciated. thanks FWIW ? i had one behave exactly like this when I tried to boot it from a cd, and with no memory and harddrive installed good luck /tina correstion: tried to boot from a dvd -- 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: imac g5 help needed asap
Il giorno 06/12/12 01:57, t...@nehaia.dk ha scritto: i had one behave exactly like this when I tried to boot it from a cd, and with no memory and harddrive installed AFAIK, with no memory the Mac should beep one time (see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1547 ) and do not chime (like the OP's Mac did). BTW, did you think your Mac could boot without memory? :-) -- 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: imac g5 help needed asap
On Dec 5, 2012, at 7:03 PM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote: i had one behave exactly like this when I tried to boot it from a cd, and with no memory and harddrive installed. No, your memory must be wrong. He said it chimed when he pressed the power button, the chime is the audio confirmation of the system self- check and this means that there's RAM installed that has checked out OK. If there was no RAM, you'd hear an error beep sequence instead of the chime. -- 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
