Subject: Re: Chooser crashes when I set up printer
From: Richard Goldberg (rickg@yorku.ca)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 14:48:58 EDT
Right,
That makes sense.
Any idea why it asks me to choose a ppd file even though I specify
one in the papd.conf file?
Thanks for the help.
-Rick
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, faxserver[ISO-8859-1] ‹nigel wrote:
> > Here is what happens. I open the chooser, select Laser Writter, choose
> > the Theremin Test entry. The printer starts to get set up and then it
> > asks me to select a ppd file (whay does it ask if I supply one in the
> > paps.conf file?) I select the correct one and the printer gets set up. I
> > can print to it with no problems.
> >
> > The problem is if I select the priner in the chooser and click "Printer
> > Info" and then "Update Info", the chooser crashes with the error:
> > The application "Chooser" has unexpectedly
> > quit, because an error of type 2 occured.
> >
>
> Is it because the netatalk printer is a spooler, not a direct connection to
> the printer? When setting up from the chooser you start a two-way
> communication between the Mac and the printer. If the *nix box is spooling
> the jobs via lpr et. al. then it seems that you cannot have this two-way
> communication. I just click on the "Configure" button and set the
> appropriate options myself.
>
> HTH
> Nigel.
>
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