Printing From GS/OS® Desktop Applications
InkMeister™ Pro

InkMeister™ Pro is a cross-platform solution which means that you print on the IIGS and Bernie shuffles the data to the Mac from where you can print it with the usual Mac printing tools. InkMeister™ Pro uses a preview window on the Mac side where it first spools all pages. When all pages have been spooled, you can print all or selected pages to your Macintosh printer.

| What's needed? InkMeister Pro does not need to be configured in Bernie or on your Apple IIGS, but it needs to be installed. It's actually a custom printer driver that makes your IIGS believe that there's a printer connected, but that fake printer is nothing but our pet dog Bernie. |
| Mount The InkMeister™ Pro Image The Bernie distribution comes with a folder that's entitled "InkMeister Pro." When you open this folder, you'll find a tiny little disk image that you should mount in Bernie. |
| Copy The InkMeister™ Pro Driver Upon completing these steps, the InkMeister Pro disk appears on the Apple IIGS desktop. The only file on that disk is the custom printer driver that you need to move to the folder... *:System:Drivers: That is, copy the file on the InkMeister Pro image to your startup disk's "Drivers" folder. Once the file has been moved to the "Drivers" folder, InkMeister Pro is ready to perform. You will have to restart the Apple IIGS, though, in order to make GS/OS aware of the freshly installed driver. |
| Select InkMeister™ Pro Back in GS/OS with InkMeister Pro loaded, tell your IIGS that it's time to print with InkMeister Pro. Open the IIGS Control Panels (from the "Apple" menu) and choose the "DC Printer" panel. What you will see is an upper list box that we respectfully discard, plus a lower list box. That's where the music is. The "InkMeister" will appear in the latter box as a possible option, and upon highlighting it, everything's settled for an InkMeister Pro session! |
| The Preview Window Bernie's "Window" menu has a "Printer" item, and when you click it the InkMeister window appears. When you're now printing, Bernie is grabbing all pages and displays them in the InkMeister Preview window. In other words, any output will not be sent directly to the printer but stored in Bernie's preview window. From here you can print all or selected pages. zoom in zoom out open preferences page setup print spooled pages previous page next page manual form feed clear all pages |