At 1:07 PM -0600 5/23/98, Keith Jones wrote:
> Both Tom and Mike recommended downloading a PS Printer Driver
>from the Adobe website. Does anyone know if this would work with my
>rather ancient (but-still-going-strong) LaserWriter II NTx ?

Dunno, but it won't hurt your system to try. (If it doesn't work, you'll
get a PostScript printing error.)

> would it be OK to keep both the LaserWriter 8 PPD and the Adobe driver
> in my system (selecting the appropriate driver each time, via the
> Chooser)

That's no problem. I have about 4 or 5 different versions of the LW drivers
in my system...sometimes one works better than another, I've found,
especially when you need to run two different versions of an app (like
Quark 3.32 and Quark 4).

You won't have a naming problem (since in your case one is called PSPrinter
and the other is LaserWriter 8), but because I use multiple versions of the
LaserWriter 8.X (in addition to Adobe's PS Printer), I usually re-name the
LW ones by adding the version to the end (LaserWriter 8.31, LaserWriter
8.42, etc.).

IOW, the Mac OS is surprisingly flexible for users who need to muck around
with the files that appear in the Chooser. You can even change the files'
icons if you want, something that manufacturers do when they customize a
base LW driver for their printer.

AM

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