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Printing from your old mac (OS 7)

If You have documents on a old mac computer running an old Apple Macintosh system eg OS 7.5.5. and You want to print it -It's not easy today to find a compatible (working) printer. - One workinghorse is Laserjet 4M

This is an another way to do it

Use Adobe PDF-format and move The old Mac document for printing to another computer

Step by step:

1) Install PrintToPDF on Your old Mac Computer

2a) Print Your Document to a PDF-file on a PC-formated Floppy disk
2b) or Print Your Document to a PDF-file on your NAS-server

3) Open the pdf-file and print it on a PC or newer Mac computer with a working Printer.

1) Install and use PrintToPDF

PrintToPDF is a shareware Macintosh printer driver that creates PDF files (readable by Adobe Acrobatô Reader or GhostScript on any platform). You do not need to have the full Acrobat package (as opposed to the Reader) installed for PrintToPDF to work. You can create PDF bookmarks to your section and subsection headings, and URLs will become hot links. PrintToPDF is not as powerful as Acrobat, but it creates simple PDFs for a much lower price ($20).

PrintToPDF has been primarily tested with Mac OS 9, but most of it should work with systems back to 7.0. It does not run in Mac OS X except in applications running in "classic" mode. Some of the Asian language functionality requires a PowerMac and the Text Encoding Converter extension. Of course, since it's shareware, you can find out whether it works well with your system and applications before paying for it. You will need Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later to view the manual and the created PDFs. To view PDFs containing Japanese, Chinese, or Korean text, you'll need the Asian Font Pack for Acrobat Reader.