[Macpartners] Leopard and printers

[William Litant]

Same here. Interestingly, no probs with an upgraded MacBook Pro, but  
print problems of all sorts with an upgraded G5, particularly with  
Adobe applications, printing to an HP 4550N.
On Jan 30, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Samuel Jay Keyser wrote:

> Dear Mac Partners,
>
> Being an early early adapter, I cast caution to the winds and
> downloaded Leopard.  I know MIT will catch up soon, but as I said, I'm
> impatient.  Anyway, it works fine with my setup (Powerbook G4).   But
> I have discovered a glitch which I pass on to all of you.  If you have
> an older printer (I have a HP Deskjet 990cse), the built-in drivers
> only allow basic functions.  So you are in jeopardy of losing some
> useful printer functions if you download Leopard.  For example, my
> deskjet could do two-sided printing on OS 10.4.1, but not on OS10.5.1.
>
> Forewarned is forearmed.
>
> Jay
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William T.G. Litant
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