10.4: A USB Printing tip for Intel-based Macs

Jan 24, '06 05:22:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Tiger only hintI have been wondering if Rosetta will work with PowerPC print drivers and found the following tip on the osx86project wiki page:

OSx86 has universal binaries for all its pre-installed printer drivers. However, if your model doesn't have a pre-installed driver, you might be in a bit of a sticky situation. The problem is, even if you download your printers driver, it won't be listed in the driver list! That's because chances are the newly added driver is in PowerPC architecture. To fix this, right click "Printer Setup Utility" in Utilities, select "Get Info" and click "Open using Rosetta." Now, when you restart the setup utility, it will load PowerPC drivers in the driver list, and your newly added printer driver should now be visibly listed! Enjoy! - By Takuro
For HP printers, follow above and just pick any HP printer even if yours is not listed. All of them use the same driver. HP has a unified deskjet driver for Linux, BSD and OS/2 so it is reasonable to try this with any HP deskjet. Specifically tried and worked with HP PSC 1610.
I have not tried this solution, as my new Intel Mac is still on order.

[robg adds: I believe this is the first Intel Mac tip in the system. I don't yet have an Intel box on order, so I obviously haven't tested this one yet, either!]

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