Microspot Backgrounder & MacPalette II Error

[Concorde1993]

Thanks to @GameMan370, I now have working color ribbons for my IW II.

However, I’m having a problem with the MacPalette II driver. After I print a full color document, if I decide to print a second document (or another copy of the previous document), I get an error from Microspot Backgrounder telling me that the “Selected Port is in use by another application” and the IW II does nothing.

I have my IW II connected to my B&W G3 using a Keyspan USA-28 adapter. I am using the printer port in Chooser (serial port option does nothing). AppleTalk is disabled. Currently running OS 9.2.1

Pic of the error message:

 

[Byrd]

Hi,

Never heard of this alternate driver; what benefits does it provide over the stock IW driver? As it's pretty early late OS 6/early OS 7 software it might be an incompatibility here over anything else - try it on an older Mac perhaps without Keyspan bridge running < OS 7.6

 

[Concorde1993]

Never heard of this alternate driver; what benefits does it provide over the stock IW driver

It allows you to print in color on the IW II.

MS Word and Acrobat Reader have no way of telling the IW II to print a document in color at the print prompt. The MacPalette II driver (which replaces Apple’s IW II driver in Chooser) supposedly fixes this problem.

Try it on an older Mac perhaps without Keyspan bridge

Will do. I always seem to be slightly ahead of the times with software.

 

[Phipli]

Hum, you might struggle there. Isn't MacPalette about a decade older thant the G3, USB and the Keyspan adapter? Even more so compared to 9.2.1.

I'm pretty impressed that in even does the first print

Or did MicroSpot keep updating it?

 

[Concorde1993]

Or did MicroSpot keep updating it?

I just downloaded whatever version was available on the Macintosh Repository

 

[Phipli]

It's only the demo, but a while back I uploaded the demo of version 2.5 as part of MacDraft here : http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macdraft-51

That version of MacDraft is from like, 2003, so perhaps, possibly, that version of MacPalette is new enough to fix your issue.

Not sure what the demo limitations are. Perhaps you could email MicroSpot and beg for a newer version of the newest version they have. See if they'll sell you one.

MicroSpot are still going (last time I checked) support the old school long term Mac Developers there aren't many left!