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WOW ! I just managed to get my 16 year old Canon A3 format B/W ( LBP-1610 ) laser printer ( non postscript ) printing in the last High Sierra Beta 17A360a.

I bought this printer in Feb. 2001 in Japan ( I live in Japan ) it has been a real workhorse for my English school here.

Canon sells replacement cartridges for ¥29,490 ( US $263 ! ) . . but in the past 16 years I have only bought one one recycled cartridge for around US $50 and I get toner shipped from the US which comes with a handy tool to burn a hole in the cartridge to add toner - the toner package comes with a nice plug for the hole too.

The first time I ever used this printer was in Mac OS 9.2.2 !

In Mavericks 10.9.5 I discovered by accident and despair that an old, original Canon original driver for Leopard 10.5 allows installation in Mavericks ( and High Sierra ) and actually works perfectly without any hacking at all. Not so in any OS X release higher than Mavericks.

I scoured the internet and came up with this solution but bear in mind that you must FIRST have a printer driver that will allow you to install it in High Sierra. ( I'm using a driver designed for Leopard in High Sierra ! ).

My solution for my Laser printer

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1. DELETE the currently installed printer from System Prefs/ Printers

2. Re-install the driver but do not yet add it to your available printers list.
Disconnect the printer's USB cable.

3. Repair permissions up to OS X Mavericks ( Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra do not have “Repair Permissions “ in Disk Utility ) .

4. Start Terminal and enter these commands

sudo sh -c 'echo "Sandboxing Relaxed" >> /etc/cups/cups-files.conf'

and . . .

sudo launchctl stop org.cups.cupsd

5. Connect the printer and NOW “ADD” the printer to your available printers list.

Good luck.

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Obviously the solution involves changing the way OS X handles CUPS.

I haven't tried this solution in Yosemite, El Capitan or Sierra (I don't like El Capitan at all ). and I have no idea how this will work with other branded lasers or inkjet printers but it is certainly worth a try. If your printer is still working but has no updated drivers . . . save $$$$$$$ or ¥¥¥¥¥¥
 
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MIKX said:
WOW ! I just managed to get my 16 year old Canon A3 format B/W ( LBP-1610 ) laser printer ( non postscript ) printing in the last High Sierra Beta 17A360a.

I bought this printer in Feb. 2001 in Japan ( I live in Japan ) it has been a real workhorse for my English school here.
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so, because i'm curious: what's the point? seems like a lot of work for a novelty, and to run such old hardware. or was it just the challenge? (which is cool, if)...
 
fisherking said:
so, because i'm curious: what's the point? seems like a lot of work for a novelty, and to run such old hardware. or was it just the challenge? (which is cool, if)...
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This printer is not a 'novelty ' it is mechanically, still sound. I upgraded it's onboard RAM from 16Mb to 64Mb. It works flawlessly in the three main OS X versions I use; Snow leopard, Mavericks and now High Sierra. I still have enough toner for another two years or so.

I make, print and sell my own English textbooks. The covers iare printed with an Epson A3 colour inkjet. The laser churns out the internal pages.

Of course there is a thrill in getting something to work in High Sierra with a driver meant for Leopard 10.5 only and two terminal commands - "not a lot of work".

The current comparable A3 format laser costs ¥110,000 ( US$ 980 + ). I'd rather spend that money on a 1 TB SSD ;).

Lastly, I must admit I'm sentimental, over the past 16 years it has served me very well indeed.

Why throw it away ?

( "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" )
 
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I upgraded it's onboard RAM from 16Mb to 64Mb
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I keep forgetting how computers are advancing so quickly. It must have been really hard to find the components.
[doublepost=1506240391][/doublepost]SoftRAID finally supports High Sierra with new v5.6.3. But some glitches still remain, and this is not the version for full APFS support. That will happen with v6.0, according to SoftRAID website.

At any rate, when you are upgrading to High Sierra, don't forget to unplug the SoftRAID device. Although the kernel panic prone glitches have been fixed, it appears SoftRAID still can cause a problem if operational during installation process. More details are also on the website.
 
MIKX said:
This printer is not a 'novelty ' it is mechanically, still sound. I upgraded it's onboard RAM from 16Mb to 64Mb. It works flawlessly in the three main OS X versions I use; Snow leopard, Mavericks and now High Sierra. I still have enough toner for another two years or so.

I make, print and sell my own English textbooks. The covers iare printed with an Epson A3 colour inkjet. The laser churns out the internal pages.

Of course there is a thrill in getting something to work in High Sierra with a driver meant for Leopard 10.5 only and two terminal commands - "not a lot of work".

The current comparable A3 format laser costs ¥110,000 ( US$ 980 + ). I'd rather spend that money on a 1 TB SSD ;).

Lastly, I must admit I'm sentimental, over the past 16 years it has served me very well indeed.

Why throw it away ?

( "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" )
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fair enough. and if you have 2 years of ink left... very cool.
 
...And with laser printers, an old one will produce something just as good as a later model, just slower...and they built them to last back in the day. My dad had a Laserjet 6MP that lasted over ten years before he chose to retire it. He had to buy some sort of Ethernet to AppleTalk adapter to continue using it in OS X.
 
^^^^My first GOOD printer was an HP LaserJer 4MP. Yep, it used AppleTalk. What a workhorse. It lasted a long time before it started to slip and act up. Rather than repair it, I replaced it with another HP laserJet, forget the model. I replaced that with my current HP M401dne which has the same, though smaller, form factor as my old buddy the 4MP. I've had it over four years now, and like it a lot.

Lou
 
flowrider said:
^^^^Actually I don't know. I have a cMP and an MBA. I haven't tried it, but I have a feeling it won't. I have a license for 2 Macs for Office 2011, and up un till a year or so ago, licenses issues were a nightmare with Microsoft. Every time I would initialize a new disk and erase one, I had to jump through hoops to get Office 2011 to accept my code.

Lou
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I had the same problem with licenses and had to constantly debate with them to reset activations. Microsoft has a short memory concerning their rememberence of when you purchased Office 2011 on some versions you were able to install it on two computers. Same problem with the Windows version where on the Home-Student version you had a license for three computers.

What I think Microsoft is doing is making it a hassle to reinstall to the point that you decide not to hassle with it and buy a newer version. They don’t want you using older versions and desire you to become enslaved in a subscription lifetime usuage.
 
^^^^My issues with the license started way before the release of Office 2016 and before the subscription based model. I have been using MS Office for the Mac since the 80s.

Lou
 
Every time I upgrade my system in each years major update of mac os,
the main problems I have each time,
it is the read/write of ntfs disks/files, and personal firewall.

So can somebody please tell me
- if the tuxera 2016.1 version,
- and also little snitch version 3.7x
still works properly with high sierra?
 
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Google NIK Color Efex Pro 4 and Analogue FX Pro do not work.
You can open them, edit the image, but it will crash any application such as a photoshop when trying to launch it.
 
UL2RA said:
No, it isn't a bug. You'll need to reformat your Time Machine backup to AFS once the final OS is released.
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UL2RA said:
No, it isn't a bug. You'll need to reformat your Time Machine backup to AFS once the final OS is released.
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I don't think so. I was running Sierra and upgraded to the High Sierra GM. Time Machine worked without having to reformat the disk. I then reformatted my MBP to HFS+ and re-installed Sierra. Time Machine continued where it left off and I am able to backup without any issues. Please note that the first backup in either case takes a long time, and it would be a full backup, not an incremental one.
 
Tenaliraman said:
I don't think so. I was running Sierra and upgraded to the High Sierra GM. Time Machine worked without having to reformat the disk. I then reformatted my MBP to HFS+ and re-installed Sierra. Time Machine continued where it left off and I am able to backup without any issues. Please note that the first backup in either case takes a long time, and it would be a full backup, not an incremental one.
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Doesn't matter if you think so. That's straight from Apple.
 
VMware Fusion 8.5.8 work? That is, can I upgrade to 10.13 and VMware will open and boot my Windows 10 virtual machine? I need it for work, so can't risk the upgrade - I read I may need to wait until next month when the new VMware Fusion version comes out
 
Oh for some Rumors!!
I can not stand the default folders in High Sierra, and have depended on Liteicon to restore some sanity there in El Capitan and Sierra, any rumors about High Sierra compatibility?
Any rumors about Alsoft's Disk Warrior? Any plans to incorporate compatibility for AFS?
 
davidlv said:
Oh for some Rumors!!
I can not stand the default folders in High Sierra, and have depended on Liteicon to restore some sanity there in El Capitan and Sierra, any rumors about High Sierra compatibility?
Any rumors about Alsoft's Disk Warrior? Any plans to incorporate compatibility for AFS?
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i miss liteicon too, but, thru all the betas, never found a way to make it work. maybe someone will, or... an alternative will appear. but, sigh, am not holding my breath....
 
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