[Fed-Talk] Printer Driver using Rosetta
[Fed-Talk] Printer Driver using Rosetta
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] Printer Driver using Rosetta
- From: "Sanderson, David C CTR USA" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:42:49 -0400
- Thread-topic: Printer Driver using Rosetta
While this really isn't a Federal issue, there's a bunch of smart people
here, and maybe someone can help.
We have a Fuji PG4500N Dye Sub printer. Though it is still a supported
product as far as Fuji is concerned, and we have a maintenance and
support contract on it, the latest Macintosh driver for it, claims to be
compatible only up to a G5, running 10.4.7, or lower. There is a work
around to get it to work on an Intel machine and I have gotten it to
work reliably on Intel machines running 10.4.11. In order to make that
work you have to install it with the printer utility using Rosetta.
Once it's installed, Rosetta is no longer needed. Under 10.5, as far as
I can figure, you can't run the print utility using Rosetta and I can
not get the printer to install. I believe if it is possible to manually
transfer the necessary files and settings from a 10.4.x machine to a
10.5.x machine that it would probably work, or if I can run the print
fax utility under Rosetta, in 10.5, that too should work. Can anyone
steer me to some documentation on what is stored where for a printer.
Fuji USA tells me that all printer drivers come from Japan, and they
can't do anything until the parent company provides one. I ran into
this with the predecessors of this printer (PG4000), which didn't have
an OSX driver for well over a year after OSX came out, keeping us at
OS9. I've escalated it twice now, trying to get this to the attention
of someone who can rattle a cage in Japan someplace, but in the mean
time I have 12 computers that I either can't roll out, or have to roll
back to 10.4, as not using this printer is not an option for those
users.
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