driver for HP DesignJet 800ps and OSX 10.8?

The Generic PS driver included with OS X does only support LTR, LGL and A4. No A3 and certainly no A2 or A1.

So what you could do from the 10.7 Mac is get the PPD for the DesignJet 800ps. This would be located in Library > Printers > PPDs > Contents > Resources. Or it could be located inside an additional folder under Resources called en.lproj. If you copied this PPD to the same location on the 10.8 Mac (the Resources folder) then you can add the printer again selecting this PPD.

I was afraid of that. The PPD is most likely referencing filters and plugins that are not present on the Mac, because you cannot run the 800PS installer.

According to this Apple KB article about 10.8 drivers available from Apple, there are a number of 24" DesignJet models. If you download this HP Driver v2.13 package you will add all of these models to your Mac and can then manually select one when creating the print queue.

DaveMelocco wrote:

Are you suggesting I trial a number of these until one driver works or something else?

thanks again

Yes. I thought you could try one of the other 24" DesignJet drivers, like the 500ps.

It doesn't work to me... mine is the 42" and if done all the process wit the 24" and the 42"...

Thanks for suggesting that, PAHU.

We just upgraded my old G5 to a new Intel and so, of course, I found myself hunting for a solution to the lack of DJ800 support.

My 42" DJ800 not only happily accepted the 42" 500 driver, but the driver even recognized and presented for use all of the custom sheet sizes that came from the old computer when I transferred my account info to the new one!

Hoo-HAH!

(Now, if only you could fix the "no-scroll-bar-arrows" thing...! <gr>)

Thank you!!! 🙂