Some Stuff Before you Start

• Frontis

Introductory Notes

• Purpose
• How to Use Balthisar’s Guide
• Scope/Background
• A Couple of Terms and Caveats and Prerequisites and Stuff
• What to Expect/Limitations

Some Technical Stuff

• How Printers Print
• Printing Under Classic Running in Mac OS X (already works!)
• Why (I think) Printing is Broken Under OS X
• An Interesting Experiment
• Technical Overview

Print Scenarios (Getting Down to Business)

• Choose a Print Scenario

• Print Scenario 1

  • Replace the Mac OS X 10.1.x LPRIOM.plugin file with that from 10.04
  • Install AFL-GhostScript 6.50.5
  • Use NetInfo Manager to Define a Dummy Print Center Printer
  • Use NetInfo Manager to Define our “lp” Printer
  • Build Our Spool Directories
  • Add Our Printer to the Print Center
  • Use the Terminal to Build the Filter
  • About the Print Filter
  • Print!
  • Troubleshooting

• Print Scenario 2

  • Replace the Mac OS X 10.1.x LPRIOM.plugin file with that from 10.04
  • Install AFL-GhostScript 6.50.5
  • Use NetInfo Manager to Define a Dummy Print Center Printer
  • Build Our Spool Directories
  • Add Our Printer to the Print Center
  • Use the Terminal to Build the Filter
  • About the Print Filter
  • Print!
  • Troubleshooting

• Print Scenario 3

  • Replace the Mac OS X 10.1.x LPRIOM.plugin file with that from 10.04
  • Install AFL-GhostScript 6.50.5
  • Install SAMBA (SMB printers only)
  • Use NetInfo Manager to Define a Dummy Print Center Printer
  • Build Our Spool Directories
  • Add Our Printer to the Print Center
  • Use the Terminal to Build the Filter
  • About the Print Filter
  • Print!
  • Troubleshooting

Advanced Topics

• Hosting a Printer for Easy Setup
• Additional Printer Drivers
• HP Goodies for the 970
• Uniprint Drivers (*.upp files)
• gimp-print Drivers
• LPD seems to die: an AppleTalk/SAMBA Solution
• localhost Printing
• Serial Printing
• CUPS
• Print to Print Server Computers
• Print Servers (Dedicated)
• PPD O’matic

Miscellany

• F.A.Q.

End Notes

• Thanks
• You Can Help Me and Others!
• Links and References
• Document History

Related Tutorials

• Start a Terminal Session
• Become Root
• Look at Error Log (Console)
• Move Around the File System
• sudo rm -R / -- never!
• pico
• Generate Printer Test Files via Windows