need some help

[christine]

Hi Daniel,
Yup, I tried all the things below and more. Printer works fine on G3. i ruled out the new D-link server by returning it and getting another ...exactly same problem.
However, I can't really figure out how to set the print server settings as the software on the disk is only PC software. The D-link pocket server is just a connector between the parallel port and my ethernet port. I have printed a few times so I know the server is
working. When I first installed it, it worked right out of the box.

As for using older drivers, I tried that in OS 9 same problem, but couldn't find any older ones for X.
**I don't know if this is a clue, but my printer shows up in 9 and X as "PS-4AC9AE-P1" instead of "HP 2100 LaserJet Series" the name of the pdf file, like it used to.
What I can't understand is why is it behaving the same way in 9 and X?
Another question:  where are the print drvers kept in OS X?
**I am having a hard time getting used to where everything is in X. There seem to be a lot of folders named "PPD" and I don' know whick one is the path I should give to Print Center Repair so it can install the print driver.
Thanks again,
Christine



>
> Christine,
>
> Did you try deleting  and then re adding your printer to the Print
> Center, right.
>
> I am not too familiar with the HP2100M printer. Is there any other way
> to connect it to your to computer other than through the D-link print
> server? There might be a problem with the Printer itself or the D-link
> print server. Do you have another computer to connect it to possible a
> PC with a parallel port to make sure that the printer is working. If
> the printer works while directly connect then you know something is
> either messed up on the mac os's or that your print server is either
> broken or more likely it's setting have magically changed. So check the
> print server's settings and make sure they are right. Also maybe go
> with older drivers instead of the latest cutting edge drivers, because
> from HP the cutting edge most of the time does not work the first time.
>
> On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 01:41  AM, christine cano wrote:
>
> > Now I can't print to my HP 2100M from my G4 in OS 9 either. First it
> > was just in OS X that had the problems, now it is 9 as well. Won't
> > print from Quark or Photoshop, maybe others. The Print monitor says it
> > is "processing an unkown job" or is "busy spooling a job
> > for ()". If I let the printer, it will print endless pages that are
> > blank except for a line of jibberish at the top. It seems like OS X
> > still has some control over 9 even when I boot in 9, as though there
> > is X residue in OS 9 (on a dual boot G4). Is this my
> > imagination or is it based in fact?
> >
> > At one point it would actually spool the job I was trying to print
> > with no error message, then it would clear out of the print monitor
> > like it had printed, but there was never any output. This is so weird.
> >
> > I am tearing my hair out at this point.
> > I have tried EVERTHING, apart from restoring the whole works. That is
> > beyond my last resort. All of my setting and software are the same in
> > 9 as they were on my G3. I would go back to my G3 but I don't have a
> > monitor for it anymore. Feel like I'm losing the
> > battle with my G4 and OS X right now.
> > Does Gimp-print work with HP Postscript printers? Is it easy to setup?
> > Also I have tried PrintCenter Repair to clear the problem in X but it
> > didn't help. I wish I could figure out what is going on.
> >
> > Here is my set-up.
> > G4 dual 1.25, Dual-Boot - connected to HP2100M using D-link DP101
> > print server to ethernet port of G4.
> > ****One other thing, My printer shows up in chooser as PS-4AC9AE-P1
> > instead of HP laserjet 2100M like it used to on my G3.****
> > also, i have the latest HP driver (a lot of good that probably does)
> >
> > Any clues. Any help is greatly appreciated. I am working on a
> > intensive job right now and desperately need the printer to work.
> > Thanks.
> > Christine
> Dan Brieck Jr.