Phil,
It may not be the answer you were looking for but depending on the type of memory, there may be readily available and very cheap upgrade options. Some imacs take generic desktop RAM and some take laptop RAM. If it takes the older type desktop RAM, there should be some available for a very small price. I recently ran into the same problem with an older imac and a Cannon printer. After some internet digging I found that by turning off a few of the printer extensions it was able to work, with less than the required amount of memory. Hope this helps. Rob Davidson Program/Technology Director Institute for the Study of Digital Inclusion ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Phil Shapiro Sent: Wed 9/14/2005 12:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DDN] feature bloat in hp's printer driver software hi everyone - this evening i went to help a first year college student friend who has a donated imac with 96 megs of memory and mac os 9.2. i helped him download the printer driver software for an hp deskjet 5120 printer. when we went to install the software, we got a message saying that this printer driver software requires 128 megs of memory. it's been a while since i've done computer programming, but i can't think of any good reason why printer driver software requires 128 megabytes of memory. perhaps there is feature bloat in this software? whatever the reason, this college student now cannot print his homework at home. he needs to send his homework to himself as a file attachment and then print it at his college -- which charges him for each page he prints. hp is otherwise a decent company and i'm usually a big fan of their products. they need to do better in supporting lower memory computers. under mac os 9.2, 96 megs is by no means "low memory." i wonder if there are any hp employees here on the DDN or CTCNet email lists. is there a way to get the word to the right people about this kind of issue? thanks in advance to anyone who is able to relay this feedback. - phil -- Phil Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.his.com/pshapiro/ (personal) http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/pshapiro (blog) http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/pshapiro (technology access work) http://mytvstation.blogspot.com/ (video and rich media) "Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others." - Desiderata _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.