printing from classic

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mspain77

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I'm at work and we have all the newest hardware and software except that we are utilizing an 11 y.o. plotter for our posters. My hard drive recently crashed, and 1 other machine has the driver to talk to this machine from classic (there is nothing for this printer that's OSX compatible--it's too old and nobody will support it). Where do I look to see what is different from her machine and mine? I've been looking in OS9 System Folder/Extensions/Printer Descriptions but that's not it I don't think. HELP!! Thanks.
 
Drivers are extensions - they are either Chooser Extension or application and found in the Extensions folder.

What plotter is it? Maybe we know of OS X drivers.
 
gsahli is right... look in /System Folder/Extensions for an extension with the same name or model as the printer...
 
It's an Encad NovaJet 500. I actually was able to find a driver at Adobe.com that SAYS it only works with OS8, but it seems to give me all of the 'printer specific features' that I had before. I was able to get to it, but I would LOVE to not have to print from Quark 5 and to be able to de everything from OSX. If you know of any system 10 drivers for that model, please speak up. Thanks guys.
 
I'm curious - is your Novajet one of those with a built-in postscript RIP?
If it is, you can likely just use the PPD file in Classic's Extensions/Printer Descriptions to print from OS X.
 
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