My HP printer not working with 10.5.

[alfredo]

It worked on my Mini when running 10.4.10. For some reason it is not connecting to the printer, and defaults to idle.

I've installed all drivers suggested.

[Bongo Prophet]

1. Wish I could help, alfredo. Holding off on Leopard for awhile

You might try trashing the preferences, then running installer again.
Sometimes the 3rd party drivers don't "take" - that happened with older Canon driver here.

I assume you have "Leopard ready" update from HP?

[alfredo]

2. Got it working. I uninstalled the existing HP drivers that came

with the printer. I then installed the HP drivers from the Leopard disc. It worked. Before I installed the HP drivers from the Leopard disc without first uninstalling the old drivers. That's what was causing the problem.

[Bongo Prophet]

3. Glad to hear that. Simple solutions are good things.

:thumbsup:

[alfredo]

4. Yeah, I was about to get very discouraged. I'm already bummed that

Photoshop 7 doesn't work, and that the brush tools in GIMP crashes the app.

[Bongo Prophet]

5. PS 7, I guess that is to be expected. Gimp should have a fix soon though.

Buck up, it shouldn't be long for the gimp team.

Hear ya on the old adobe upgrade conundrum. The amount of upgrades I have spent since 2.5 over the years. Oy.
What an amazing tool it is, though. My main workhorse.
Still on CS1, because I am a cheapo. And really, many of the new features are not necessary to me, cool as they are.
From PS7, maybe 2-300 bux?

Here's hoping for a quick update for you. Will post if I hear anything about updates.

cheahs

[alfredo]

6. What I am going to do is get a Iogear KVM and keep PS7 on my

G4. I tried using it by Firewire and T'ing into the G4, but that didn't work. Maybe if I go the other way it will work. I wonder if I set it as a startup item on the G4 I could get around that problem?

Oh yeah, one problem with the GIMP is lag. It can't keep up with the cursor. I will wait for GIMPShop to catch up.

[Bongo Prophet]

7. You could try VNC over gbit e-net or firewire, but lag will still be a problem

Or dual boot into tiger (PS 7 works fine in tiger, if memory serves)
Kinda depends on the resolution of your artwork.

If your monitor only has one input, them KVM is a handy decision.


The only other temporary possibility involves gray areas...

[alfredo]

8. Target mode will be used for transferring files. The KVM is the

way to go. With KVM and Target mode, I will be sitting pretty.