[G4] G4 upgrades on a beige G3 - scsi and printer help?

[Robert Meadors]

might this work with a stylus photo?
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 08:33  PM, Ramsey French wrote:

> Try this:
>
> Do what you have to do to deactivate the Ghostprint and Gimp-Print
> installation temporarily.
>
> Open Print Center
> Hold down the "Option" key and click "Add" printer
> In the pop-up, select "Advanced"
> Under "Device" select "USB"
> Under "Device Name" type "Stylus 600"
> Under "Device URI" type "file://dev/null"
> Under "Printer Model" select "ESP" (they misspelled)
> Select one of the (old) Epson Stylus printers in the bottom pane.
> Click "Add"
>
> This uses the Unix CUPS printing module built into OSX Jaguar.  It is 
> very
> similar to Gimp-Print.  You can also configure it through your web 
> browser
> by going to this address:  http://127.0.0.1:631
>
> CUPS already has a version of Ghostprint installed to support it.
> Hopefully, the new installation did not adversely affect it.  You can 
> read
> about CUPS here in the manual installed by Jaguar onto your computer:
> http://127.0.0.1:631/sum.html#1_1
>
>
> On 1/6/03 10:41 PM, "Jim Morris" <jpmorris at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the effort to help, Phil. Tried both of your suggestions 
>> but
>> am still getting the program code (at least I think that's what it 
>> is).
>> At the moment I have it hooked up to one of the USB ports on the back
>> of my G4/400 Sawtooth. Tried printing from programs other than Word as
>> well but same results.
>>
>> Any other thoughts?
>> Jim
>>
>> On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 07:59 AM, Phil A. Lefebvre wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/5/03 at 7:39 PM -0800, Jim Morris wrote:
>>>> I followed this advice as I can't print to my old Stylus 600 now 
>>>> that
>>>> I've upgraded from OS 9. This printer has been accessed through a 
>>>> USB
>>>> hub for several years. After installing Ghostprint and Giimp-print, 
>>>> I
>>>> can now add the 600 to the printer list and select it. Tried a test
>>>> page out of Word X but, instead of printing the page, it starts
>>>> churning out pages of what I guess is program code (%!PS-Adobe-3.0,
>>>> %RBINumCopies, etc).
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions for me?
>>>
>>> Yes, don't use Word! ;-) I've never had that problem with my Stylus
>>> 600, Gimp-Print, and OS X, but I have it hooked directly to the 
>>> FW/USB
>>> combo PCI card in my Beige G3. Maybe the hub is interfering. Try a
>>> direct connection. (Epson, and most printer makers, always recommends
>>> against hubs for their printers.)
>>>
>>> Also, maybe try a reinstall. The Gimp-Print install instructions are
>>> pretty picky. At one point I changed a setting and lost all
>>> communication with the printer. Had to do a reinstall to get it
>>> working again.
>>> -- 
>
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