Install the HP PSC 950 driver without booting in OS 9

Feb 06, '04 09:24:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Apple's new machines do not boot into OS 9 any more. So there is no way of installing HP Printer Drivers in OS 9 (the way HP suggests). There have been hints about that, but I found another way:

Control-click on the installer icon and select Show package contents. Then navigated to Contents -> Mac OS. There is the installer program. Now again control-click on it and select Show info. Now enable the "Open in Classic" checkbox in the info window. Finally, double-click on this installer program inside the package -- it opens in Classic and installs the driver like a charm.

I tried this method only with the new version (6.3.4) of the HP PSC 950 driver. This one works fine in Panther here, but you may have to switch to an English language system once.

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