Any postscript printer should be visible in the chooser. Is this 4+ a postscript printer? I remember the 4p had postscript support built in. Don't know about the 4+
You should not need any extra hp drivers for a postscript printer. The laserwriter 7.0 driver (part of system 6.08) should be able to print to any postscript printer over appletalk.
Marten
On 26-sep-04, at 17:52, Timothy Mulavey wrote:
Bob,
I think you need a driver from HP. On their web site they have drivers for your printer at:
>http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp? pnameOID=15024&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodSeriesId=25484&prodTypeId=18 972&swEnvOID=1006<
But the oldest Mac OS they list having drivers for is OS 8.
Perhaps Apple has something more System 6 specific in their support archives.
Tim
On Sep 26, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Robert Lowe wrote:
I have been using system 6 for a while, but have never really set up networked printers in it before.
I now have my mac plus on my home ethernet network. On this network is an HP laserjet 4+ with jet direct card. I have been attempting for a while to get my mac plus configured to use the printer. So far, I have activated Ethertalk on the mac, and gotten it to communicate on my tcp/ip network. TCP/IP stuff all works.
On the printer, I turned on its ethertalk interface. Then on the macintosh I opened the choose, and looke for it in the "laser writer" section. That's the closest match on my chooser. It wasn't there. I tried the other printer drivers. The drivers I have are the ones that come with system 6.0.8. Is there an HP specific driver I need to get? If so, where can I get it? Did I miss a step somewhere?
Any advice would be most appreciated. Right now all I can do to print is print as a postscript file, and ftp the file to my linux machine and print from there. I'd really like to get the mac talking directly to the printer!
Thanks, -Bob
PS This is a great list, this is my first post, and I'm glad to be here!
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