RE: [WinMac] Adobe PrintingLib with Apple LaserWriter driver

Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:01:31 -0500

>I am using PSPrinter. I am not using LaserWriter, on the advice of the
>technician from Canon.
>
>The problem is that installing Adobe PSPrinter puts PrintingLib 8.5.1 into
>the system folder, and over-writes PrintingLib 8.6 that comes with OS 8.5
>
>So, yes you can use PSPrinter, but you have to put PrintingLib 8.6 back in
>the Extensions folder if you want to be able to print at all.

I won't argue about this (check out Adobe's web site and Macintouch and
Macfixit to see that there is really an incompatibility between PSPrinter
and Mac OS 8.5.1), the tech from Canon might not be aware of the problem,
we usually see things like that at work, Canon (or whomever) says it's
fine and then we call EFI (the manufacturers of the Fiery) and sometimes
they'll have heard of the problem.

As with most incompatibilities, it's not so much a question of NOT being
able to use it but rather that it causes strange problems that might seem
unrelated...

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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