Hi folks,
I have a G3 iMac 400Mhz running 10.3.9. Recently I began to have
trouble, apparently with the USB ports: nothing outright stopped
working, but suddenly the USB printer (Epson 740) would take forever
to print simple stuff, and I could barely run my USB scanner (a
Canon N670U) at all -- I got many errors "could not communicate with
scanner," had to try 10 times to scan something once, etc. Both of
these peripherals had been in use for quite a while with the iMac
with no issues at all, until recently.
Since I need to be able to print and scan, and in a few other ways
was ready for an upgrade, I bought a refurbed G5 iMac and have moved
my operations over to the new machine (and here I offer thanks to
those listers who wrote in answer to my query on the iMac G5s). The
printer and scanner are trouble free on the new iMac and all the
other Macs in the house, but I would still like to get to the bottom
of what is up with my USB ports on the G3. The USB ports both work
fine when anything is plugged into them like a keyboard, mouse, or
USB drive (I have a Sandisk 256 Mb USB Cruzer), it's just the
printer and the scanner. Is this a familiar issue to anyone? Any
info appreciated.
thanks,
Beverly
I had (have) a similar problem with my printer. It would take forever
to print a simple page of text.
Turns out that I have loaded the system 9 drivers, along with
everything else. OS X uses GIMP for my Epson printer.
Solution? Make sure I force quit Classic environment, so that the
computer doesn't take forever trying to decide between OS 9 printer
driver, and GIMP.
Why don't I take the driver off? I still use it to print from some
old software.
I have an old Umax scanner which doesn't have OS X drivers, not even
from Vuescan, so I must have Classic environment running to use it.
--
Terry McCune
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