[Gimp-print-devel] Mac Snow Leopard and HP DeskJet 840c

[J R. W. <roy...@ma...>]

Hi.

I have an old iMac running macOS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard and an HP DeskJet 840C printer.  I print “wirelessly” from a more modern iMac under Catalina v10.15.3 (19D76) to the Snow Leopard machine which is connected to the printer via a USB cable.

On a previous iMac this arrangement worked just fine using one of the Gutenberg drivers but, alas, i cannot remember which version.  I no longer own that iMac but I do still have access to it should that be the way forward,

I have now connected another old iMac to the network and, when I tried to print, it returned the advice that there were no drivers and that the automated search of Apple found none.  This is what I expected, of course.

I then went to Gutenberg and downloaded usbtb-1.0.17.uni.dmg as advised on the Mac paragraph <http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Download.php> and installed the driver.

Both iMacs can now see the printer but when I print a test page I get one page showing:

% I PS-Adobe-3.0 % APL_DCS_Encoding: UTF8 % APLProducer: (Version 10.6.8 (Build 10K549 …

The text runs across the A4 Portrait page but at each % symbol the text drops down a line.  There may be further text after the Build number but it would be off the paper.

The test page fails to print and the paper just spews out blank pages until I turn off the printer.

If you can offer any advice I would be most grateful.  Am I using the correct driver from your website?  Is there any thing I can copy off the other iMac which did work  and, if so, just what?

Thanks in advance.

Regards and keep up the good work.

Roy.