Installing printer driver for Classic on PowerBook G4

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2014, December 5 - 6:22pm

crisscross

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Installing printer driver for Classic on PowerBook G4

I bought a G4 Powerbook recently to run Bentley Microstation software that only exists for Mac in Classic.

The guy I bought it from was too young to have heard of Classic and at first would only install Tiger instead of 10.5.4, but after gentle persuasion added Classic from Dropbox.com ( Mac OS 9 System Support Files.mpkg ).

Works fine until I have to print, which needs Microstation to find a system printer to work with. I have bought an HP 1220C which has an OS9 driver which I downloaded and installed onto internal HD; this turns up on LH of Chooser as hp deskjet 5.4 , however it needed a new install of the driver with printer running and attached to generate 1220c in the right hand Chooser panel.

Worked fine once, but then crashed whole of Classic and won't re-appear in the right hand Chooser panel

Should I have installed the HP driver into (OS9) System Folder…and if so how?

Alternately, I see you publish os9general.dmg . Would this be a sounder Classic implementation and if so, how would I install that over previous one?

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2014, December 7 - 7:59pm

MikeTomTom

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By the sounds of things, it installed correctly in the beginning, but didn't like what you were trying to print, possibly corrupting the drivers in the process.

To install, start Classic then run the OS 9 driver installer again. This should overwrite what you installed previously. Test the printer again with very basic plain text documents, just to see if it works OK under classic, before you hit it with more complex printing tasks.

Is your PB G4 classic only (cannot boot native into OS 9)?

2014, December 8 - 7:33am

sfp1954

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Not all drivers that work in an OS 9 native environment are compatible with classic. If you boot the same folder natively and via classic you will notice a lot fewer icons (ie extensions, control panels) being loaded in the classic mode.