[MACEP] Help connecting USB Printer under 10.2 plus classic

[Mary Hochberg]

I would love to get rid of all classic programs but that is not going 
to happen this year. Possibly next year.

Just to be sure I understand: When AppleTalk was on, they could print 
to a local USB printer from a classic program WITHOUT a specific 
printer driver.  That is what confused me.  I didn't think this was 
possible.

---Mary, feeling very tired and drained

>That would be the joy of supporting classic.  This is a great 
>illustration why I think schools should replace classic applications 
>with OS X native applications.  Classic apps are more difficult to 
>support AND they are slower.  Not really a cost
>effective combination IMHO.
>
>The chooser can no longer browse the network when Appletalk is 
>turned off.  You can use it directly connect to local printers & 
>"manually" connect via TCP/IP to AppleShare servers.  To connect to 
>network printers, you'll need to use the desktop
>printer utility and TCP/IP (i.e. LPR).
>
>So to make a long answer short,  No driver & no Appletalk probably 
>means they have not been printing from Classic applications.  The 
>only way they could have printed is using the Desktop Printer 
>Utility, TCP/IP (LPR) and a network printer.
>
>Darrin A. King
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>Mary Hochberg <hochberg_m at 4j.lane.edu> on Thursday, April 21, 2005 
>at 1:07 PM -0800 wrote:
>>Yeesh, I'm afraid these are the answers. The OS 9 printer drivers are
>>not installed on the computers.
>>
>>Thank you, Darrin and Richard! Between your answers, I found the
>>solution AND a better understanding of the problem.
>>
>>One last question. Now that AppleTalk is off and there is no OS 9
>>driver installed, does that mean that they have never printed from an
>>OS 9 program?
>>
>>If so, I'm NOT going to install one now.  Instead, I'll just add the
>>solution to my troubleshooting file.
>>
>>Having jumped from OS 7 to OS X (via Windows), sometimes things are
>>very confusing.
>
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---Mary Hochberg
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