Hi Doug,
Those'll be desktop printers, try using Find File (Sherlock) to find them by
name (or look for things on your desktop that have printer icons and names
to match the old printers), then dump them in the trash to get rid of them.
Time was you didn't need to delete printers on a mac at all (you used the
ones that the Chooser found at print time, if the one you were using last
time wasn't there any more, you'd have to choose another), but Apple must
have thought that permanent configuration/queue files like Windows uses were
pretty cool and decided to have a go at implementing them - no sarcasm here
either, they both do what they're meant to, kind of.
Ray
> From: "Douglas S. Smoot" <rin0dss@bumed30.med.navy.mil>
> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 13:55:06 -0400
> To: Cytometry Mailing List <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu>
> Subject: Mac Printer Question
>
>
> This may seem to be a simple question, but how do I remove printers from
> the available printer list? I am running OS 8.6 and we have removed a
> printer from the system but it still appears on the list to print
> to. Since it doesn't exist anymore, I will get error messages. We tried
> to reinitialize the chooser, but even when the printer doesn't appear on
> the chooser, it still appears on the print menu in Cellquest and other
> programs. With Windows, you just delete the printer and you are
> done. I've asked BD and Tritech repairmen, and neither of them
> know. There is probably a simple trick since the Apple is so much easier
> than the PC (I don't buy that, but don't kill me for sarcasm - they are
> both good systems for what they do.) My problem might be that I am
> thinking about this like a Windows user would, so any help would be much
> appreciated. Thank you.
>
> Doug
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> Douglas Smoot
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