That's the error number I get when I try to print to a Desktop printer in OS 9.2. Not the Classic mode of OS X, but 9.2.
It's a Microline 320 Turbo USB impact printer attached to beige G3-300 via a PCI board. I'm using the OKIIBM PPD from the Linux Foundation. I've looked at it and there's no reason it shouldn't work.
I selected Laserwriter 8 in the Chooser, and used the desktop printer utility to create the Desktop Printer ( of course ). It picked up the ML320 just fine through USB.
I have also set the printer in Epson FX emulation mode with the correct driver, and as a IBM Proprinter, with the same results. Tried using the AdobePS, instead of the Laserwriter 8 driver too.
The error is supposed to be from the Device manager indicating that there wasn't a matching entry in the Name Registry ( nrNotFoundErr ).
I checked the firmware and in the nvram there is a routine I haven't been able to decipher yet. Before the happy Mac it prints "can't: OPEN" a few dozen times across the screen. The machine then boots normally. The routine *appears* to check the attached peripherals, keyboard, disk drives, and the like.
An external USB ZIP drive has been added to the machine since I last had to work with it. I think my sister (!!!) managed to install it. It didn't snow in Hell that day, but they did get some heavy rain.
I tried to set the use-nvramrc? back to false ( default ) and the boot-command to boot instead of the routine entry point but then the machine couldn't find the boot drive.
It's for my father. There is no substitute for success. I can't upgrade the OS, or get a different printer, or anything else. Please, no suggestions to evade the problem.
I'm stumped. Even if I wrote a Forth subroutine and added it to the one already in nvram, I wouldn't know what value to set nor what to set it to. Any guidance or guess of a solution is welcome.
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