Some Stuff Before you Start
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
Print Scenarios (Getting Down to Business)
- Choose a Print Scenario
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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
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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
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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
End Notes
Related Tutorials
Related Tutorials
Look at Error Log (Console)
You’ll want to look at the system error log from time to time. In Mac OS X, this is an application called Console. It can be found here:
/Applications/Utilities/Console
It will look something like this:
