Re: Printing to an "old" printer

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From: Ramón G Castañeda (sorry.nomail_at_all.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:01:46 -0800

In article uA2kq8CzEHA.2016@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl, Jeff at
jjweinb@earthlink.net wrote on 11/16/04 14:53:

> Has anyone had this problem? I have an older HP LaserJet 4 Plus printer
> that is still in good working order. I would like to print to it, but I am
> running into a problem with the driver on my Mac. The printer is connected
> to the computer through a printer server on my network. I can see the
> printer port in the print center on the Mac. I add the printer through that
> port and try to print. The LJ 4 Plus driver I see on the Mac's printer pick
> list gives me an error message on the printer that I have the wrong printer
> personality for use with that driver. So, I next tried the Gimp driver for
> the printer (4.2.7 and 4.2.5), and though I can get the printer to print
> what I send it, it is very erratic. Sometimes the print starts up
> immediately (whether text or graphics), sometimes it takes 1-2 minutes for
> the printer to respond and finally print, and sometimes the printer never
> responds and I have to cancel the print job from the print queue.
>
> Is there a driver somewhere that I can get that will allow my 4 Plus to work
> properly?
>
> JWeinberg
> jjweinb@earthlink.net
>
>

 The age of the printer has little to do with it. I'm printing to two old
Apple LW printers, a IIg and a IINTX with no problems (as well as to two
Epsons).
 
 On the other hand, if you scan the Apple discussion boards or the Adobe
forums, you'll see that over 95% of the printing problems experienced by Mac
users involve HP printers.
 
 
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