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StyleWriter on Panther 10.3 - WORKS!
Short story: Stylewriter DOES work with Panther. Im currently running 10.3.2 on a Wallstreet printing to a Stylewriter 1200. I think the trick is to save the .ppd file in /usr/share/cups/model
So in the above instructions try changing step # 5.5 to:
And step # 8 to
(the /dev/cu.xxxx according to your type of built-in serial or serial adapter)
Longer story: I wasn´t very systematic in trying out sollutions. I´m really a OS9-guy, and a unix newbie. Surfing around to read what other have done with their old serial printers I tried some other manipulations and reinstalls before I found this out. So it would be good if someone confirmed that this is the change required for 10.3. The ESP Ghostscrip is said not to be needed with 10.3, I have it installed. I also installed Gimp-print4.2.5, even though I originally had installed the Gimp-drivers from the 10.3 install disks. Reinstalled CUPS 1.1.20 (believe it´s same version Apple ships with 10.3). Came across and ran SerialPrinterEnabler http://my.vbe.com/~mbrought/serial_printing.html. This might be required to? It seemed to add the /usr/libexec/cups/backend/serial-files I was missing in my first post, but again I can´t tell since I had been trying to extract those directly myself, not really knowing what I was doing. Anyway, I´m happy with my very compatible Wallstreet. With USB- and Firewire-cards its the perfect portable digital hub between OldWorld OS9/SCSI and NewWorld Macs.
StyleWriter on Panther 10.3 - WORKS!
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