The sun is out, one could almost pretend it's spring here. However 
I'm buried in my office looking at classic mac printing, evil stuff 
this. However people have had 15 years to make it work.

So attached is a somewhat viable plugin to enable to you all to print 
from say the Squeak 3.0.x series of macintosh VMs, with of course the 
smalltalk code I posted on Saturday.

Now there is one bug that this venture has exposed. Once the printer 
status messages come up you must click on them to get Squeak to 
continue to run, otherwise they hang  everything and you grow old 
waiting. Oh and asking for multiple copies doesn't work, same for 
printing over 128 pages. These are nasty issues with this level of 
printing architecture that I doubt I'll fix as a casual adventure.

The click issue is related to a bug that gets exposed by popping up 
the dialog window, I'd guess it's the earliest bug coded in the 
macintosh VM so far. I am willing to build a 3.0.21 VM to fix it if 
there is interest, as yet I've not seen any interest in printing (ie 
feedback) so it's hard to judge if mac users actually have printers 
these days?

Note a  3.0.19 and 3.0.20 VM was distributed for testing last year 
however they never really officially shipped because of issues with 
Microsoft browser plugin openGL insanity.
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