Nov 25, '09 07:30:03AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
With Snow Leopard, some multifunction printers will only print, because the new drivers from Apple do not support any other functions. But you can still get some older models to work, provided they were released prior to the switch to Intel in 2006.
I managed to get my HP PSC 1110 printer to work this way under Snow Leopard:
- Get the new Apple printer driver for your model using Software Update and install it.
- Install Rosetta, if you haven't done so already.
- Make a backup of your system, in case something goes wrong.
- If you don't have the PowerPC driver and software (not the Universal version) from the CD or DVD that came with your printer, get it from the manufacturer's website.
- Install the software as normal. This will give you a second printer for your model of printer in System Preferences. It should also install all the related scanning software, etc.
Perhaps it would also work if you force the scan programs to start in PowerPC mode (by deleting the Intel configuaration using e.g. Tinker Tool System), but I haven't tried that.
