Printing in Classic

SGilbert

SGilbert

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How do I access OSX print drivers from an app that is open in Classic?

Print Shop, for instance, wants to open OS9 printer set-up, rather than the OSX versions. The 9 print drivers will not run while in Classic from X. (My terminology may be faulty, but I believe the point is made).

BTW: this happens on my Ti with 9 & X w/ Classic installed, and my new iBook with only X & Classic.
 
Normally thje OS 9 apps use the printers that are installed in OS X. It adheres to what the rest of the system is using. Unfortunately, there will always be an application that won't behave properly as Apple had intended for them to be. I've seen situations with this in PageMaker as well. You are probably going to have to boot up into OS 9 (if is supports booting into OS 9) and configure the printers in that manner and reboot back into OS X and see if the settings held.
 
In order to print in Classic, your printer must be installed in Classic or MacOS 9. This means that you have to install MacOS 9 drivers and use the MacOS 9 tools such as the Chooser to manage your printers. You may access a single printer from MacOS X and Classic, but you must have the proper drivers installed in each environment. As for PageMaker, I have had no problems with it under the Classic environment in MacOS X.
 
In this case (Print Shop), I went to the chooser (from within the system folder, as it won't open from Apple menu), selected the printer (Epson 6400), and then went to print. The 9 print dialogs come up, I choose "print", and the Print Monitor comes up--then beeps at me saying the printer is not responding; "continue" does nothing, and "Cancel" brings up the print monitor with nothing in it!

Apparently there is no work-around? There's gotta be something!
 
Hey Bob, that sounds like it might work---EXCEPT---I've long ago trashed "Desktop Printer Utility" and the associated extentions.

I can use "Tome Viewer" to retrieve them if I knew which 9 extentions I need.
 
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