[Macpartners] Leopard and printers

[Justin Anderson]

Have you tried manually installing HP's printer drivers on your  
Leopard machine?

That may give back some of your missing functionality, but your model  
of printer is 8 years old and might not be supported anymore.

HP's OS X driver page for the Deskjet 990cse:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList? 
os=219&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=61237&lang=en

Direct ftp link to Universal Binary installer:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software7/COL15331/mp-40792-1/ 
OSXHPInkjetinstallerB.dmg

Hope that works for you,
Justin

Justin Anderson
Macintosh Developer - ISDA
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
jander at mit.edu


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
>