I've just added a new iBook to my home LAN. My USB printer is
connected to an older iMac running on OS 9.2.2 (iBook is 10.2.6). I
cannot get Print Center to recognize and add the network printer.
However, from the Classic platform everything works like it used to.
From previous posts it's not quite clear: am I simply out of luck?

TIA for any suggestions.

Dan

In article <dc83db08.0308222244.7dd1b091[at]posting.google.com>,
danielgann[at]qwest.net (Dan Gann) wrote:

> I've just added a new iBook to my home LAN. My USB printer is
> connected to an older iMac running on OS 9.2.2 (iBook is 10.2.6). I
> cannot get Print Center to recognize and add the network printer.
> However, from the Classic platform everything works like it used to.
> From previous posts it's not quite clear: am I simply out of luck?

The only way to print is to save to PDF in OS X and then print the PDF
in OS 9. Printer sharing is not compatible between the operating systems.

--
Matthew Smith
(to reply via email remove xxx)

Matthew Smith wrote:

> The only way to print is to save to PDF in OS X and then print the PDF
> in OS 9.

Or have a look at <http://www.geocities.com/barijaona/print66/>. In case you
set up the MacOS X machine to create output in the printer's native language
(might be necessary to use GhostScript/Gimp-Print or wait until MacOS 10.3
is available) you can use remote LPR to print to the MacOS 9 machine...

> Printer sharing is not compatible between the operating systems.

Who cares? ;-)

Regards,

Thomas