LPR Printing in Mac OS 9/Classic

[michaelg]

Wife is using Word 2001 in Classic.

Have HP Laserjet 4P connnected to a DLink 704P router/print server via a parallel port.

Have downloaded latest driver from HP.

Booted into OS 9.

Did full install of HP drivers and utilities.

Selected Laserwriter 8 in Chooser.

Ran Desktop Printer Utility & selected PPD & specifed print location & queue specified in DLink user's guide.

Verified the connection to the printer in the Desktop Printer Utility.

Saved the Desktop Printer.

Attempted to print. Status light flashes 4 times and quites w/o printing anything.

Also tried setting up CUPS (in OS X v10.3.8) via the web interface. Got a test print but don't know how to get the classic app to print to it.

Any ideas on how to get this dinosaur breathing?

 

[MisterMe]

Wife is using Word 2001 in Classic.

Have HP Laserjet 4P connnected to a DLink 704P router/print server via a parallel port.

Have downloaded latest driver from HP.

Booted into OS 9.

Did full install of HP drivers and utilities.

Selected Laserwriter 8 in Chooser.

Ran Desktop Printer Utility & selected PPD & specifed print location & queue specified in DLink user's guide.

Verified the connection to the printer in the Desktop Printer Utility.

Saved the Desktop Printer.

Attempted to print. Status light flashes 4 times and quites w/o printing anything.

Also tried setting up CUPS (in OS X v10.3.8) via the web interface. Got a test print but don't know how to get the classic app to print to it.

Any ideas on how to get this dinosaur breathing?

I take it that your printer is does not use PostScript or a PostScript clone. MacOS X can print via CUPS to non-PostScript printers. There is no equivalent to CUPS in Classic. Take heart--all is not lost. PowerPrint from Strydent provides MacOS 9 drivers for Windows-based (PCL) printers. This suite of commercial drivers supports your printer.

 

[Natobasso]

your HP printer is discontinued:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF10a/18972-236251-236263-14638-236263-25485.html

But they offer some other solutions to getting it to work in Mac OS:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=bpm00549

New OS 9 Driver as of March 11, 2005:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...odSeriesId=25485&prodTypeId=18972&swEnvOID=13

New Mac OS X Driver as of March 11, 2005:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...dSeriesId=25485&prodTypeId=18972&swEnvOID=219

Hope some of this helps! Let us know what happens.