Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!resnick From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Printer Drivers Keywords: Systems 6.07/7.0 Message-ID: <1991May25.180823.3131@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 25 May 91 18:08:23 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 20 hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose) writes: >Now here's the problem. Some of the users who *haven't* started running >System 7.0 yet want to still use "background printing", which of right >now, they can't use. Is there any quick fix to leave their systems >running 6.0.(5/7), using the 7.0 printer drivers, and allow background >printing? The macintosh-printing-tools.hqx (?) file in the dts/mac/sys.soft/truetype directory of ftp.apple.com has version 6.1 of LaserWriter and Backgrounder and PrintMonitor for 6.0.x users. This driver has a LaserPrep that is compatible with 7.0. pr -- Pete Resnick (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?) Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC Internet/ARPAnet/EDUnet : resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu BITNET (if no other way) : FREE0285@UIUCVMD