Good printers for Lion

I just bought an iMac (my first Mac) and am now in the market for an all-in-one printer, because it looks like there are no Lion drivers for my old OfficeJet G95 (networked via a Jetdirect 170X printserver). I have read reviews of a bunch of printers and it has come down to a choice between the Epson WorkForce 840 or the HP OfficeJet Pro 8500a. Both seem to be less than perfect solutions. TheWorkForce doesn’t seem to be able to send a scanned image to a networked Mac and almost a third of those that bought the OfficeJet 8500s from Amazon got defective units. And the paper trays in both are pretty flimsy and they both seem to take longer to spit out a first page than my trusty old G95.
Is there any workaround to get my sturdy old OfficeJetG95 to work with my new networked iMac?
If not, are there any well built all-in-one printers out there that work smoothly with iMacs – Lion addition?
Thank you.

I'm really fond of Canon printers, and we have several Pixma Ip4800's, they are not all in one, but great photo printers. The chassis on all the ips are the same, and the multifunction ones print at the same res and all of that, just some have more or less features. The ones i like the best for office printing is automatic doublesided printing and autoshutoff and autostartup. Our printers work flawlessly with lion, and did so in SL as well. Anyway, that's what I would recommend from experience.

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Which printers will work with lion?

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I was hoping the 2 older hp's would be ok. It's time to update i guess. Tx...J
They may be, I would certainly check before buying replacements for them.

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I can't recommend a good one but I have had bad experience with Lexmark. If at all possible go with another brand.

Is mac keeper good for lion os mac pro

is mac keeper good for lion os I was told it wasnt and im having problems with my mac its running sluggish and freezing up nothing is running in background either!

Hi ...
Avoid MacKeeper. Results of an ASC forum search for MacKeeper > Community Search: Apple Support Comments are discouraging for the most part. You don't need third party utlities installed to take care of your Mac. For the most part they do more harm than good.
Not enough free space on the startup disk can slow the system down.
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure there's a minimum of 15% free disk space.
Disabling the Lion "resume" feature may help.
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Deselect: Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps
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Norton antivirus 12 for lion any good?

I know in the past Nortion antivirus software was as ruinious to a mac performance as the virus you are trying to avoid.
Is the new anti virus internet security 5 & antivirus12 designed for Lion, actually work now, without a HUGH performance hit?

Mac OS X versions 10.6.7 and later have built-in detection of known Mac malware in downloaded files. The recognition database is automatically updated once a day; however, you shouldn't rely on it, because the attackers are always at least a day ahead of the defenders. In most cases, there’s no benefit from any other automated protection against malware.
The most effective defense against malware is your own intelligence. All known malware that affects an up-to-date Mac OS system takes the form of trojans that can only operate if the victim is duped into running them. If you're smarter than the malware attacker thinks you are, you won't be duped. That means, primarily, that you never install software from an untrustworthy source. How do you know a source is untrustworthy?
Any website that prompts you to install a “codec,” “plug-in,” or “certificate” that comes from that same site, or an unknown site, merely in order to use the site, is untrustworthy.
A web operator who tells you that you have a “virus,” or that anything else is wrong with your computer, or that you have won a prize in a contest you never entered, is trying to commit a crime with you as the victim.
“Cracked” versions of commercial software downloaded from a bittorrent are likely to be infected.
Software with a corporate brand, such as Adobe Flash Player, must be downloaded directly from the developer’s website. No intermediary is acceptable.
Disable Java (not JavaScript) in your web browser(s). Few websites have Java content nowadays, so you won’t be missing much. This setting is mandatory in Mac OS X 10.5.8 or earlier, because Java in those versions has bugs that make it unsafe to use on the Internet. Those bugs will probably never be fixed.
Follow these guidelines, and you’ll be as safe from malware as you can reasonably be.
Never install any commercial "anti-virus" products for the Mac, as they all do more harm than good. If you need to be able to detect Windows malware in your files, use ClamXav — nothing else.

Dual boot for lion and SL

BHow do I set up the dual boot for Lion and snow leopard oon the same internal hard disK
What does Time machine do under the dual boot?

I am also considering putting Lion and SL on separate hard drives.
Since this is an iMac forum, I assume you will use an external drive as the second drive. Use one that connects via firewire, not via USB.
Both on a single drive -
OK. Doing it on a single drive means you will need to partition the internal drive. Although this is straight forward, it is always best to back up the existing drive first, just in case. It's a good idea to have a backup on a different drive, anyway.
To do that, clone the entire internal drive to the external drive.
I would suggest, though, that you first partition the external drive. I would suggest four equal-size partitions, provided the drive is big enough - at least 1.0TB, though a 2.0TB drive might be better. You can use OS X's disk utility to do that. Go to the Partition page in Disk Utility, select your external driv in the list on the left, then use the Partition Layout menu to select the number of partitions. Set the format to Mac OS Extended (journaled) GUID for all partitions. Click the Apply button.
The easy way to do the cloning is to use a cloning utility such as Carbon Copy Cloner. Clone the entire internal drive to one of the partitions on the external drive. Then test boot to it (use Startup Disk in System Preferences to do that) to verify the integrity of the clone. At that time I would suggest you change the background design/picture for the desktop to aomething other than the one used on the original drive - this can be a handy visual reminder of which volume you are booted to.
Then add a partition to the internal drive. To do that, run Disk Utility. Go to the Partition page, select your internal drive in the list on the left, but do not use the Partition Layout menu this time. Instead, click the existing volume in the graphic display, then click the plus ("+") button underneath that display -
This will add a partition without erasing the existing information - i.e., the drive will end up with two partitions, one of which will contain your original boot volume.
Use Startup Disk to re-select your original boot violume, and restart back into it.
Now, clone the original drive again using CCC, but this time to the second partition of the internal drive, the one you just added.
Boot to that freshly cloned volume to verify it. Then, while still booted to it, install OS X 10.7 Lion onto it.
This will result in your original Snow Leopard on the first partition of the internal drive, and Lion on the second partition of the internal drive.
The external drive will have Snow Leopard on one partition, one partition will be empty (available for a clone of Lion if you wish, or use it for extra storage). The remaining two partitions can be used for Time Machine backups - one for Snow Leopard, one for Lion.
If you want to have each OS on its own hard drive, then you can use the first clone of Snow Leopard to the external to be upgraded to Lion, or upgrade the orignal on the internal drive to Lion. Be sure to boot to the volume to be used for Lion before installing it so that Lion is installed onto the correct boot volume.
You can then use the empty partition on the internal drive as the backup (or Time Machine) volume for the OS on the external drive, and vice versa. In this arrangement you may need only partition the external into two volumes.
If you have a different scheme in mind for partitioning, feel free to do that. I don't use Time Machine, so don't have the need to make space for it. Carbon Copy Cloner can be used to do incremental backups after the initial backup - but I don't use that, either. I'm old school - after the inital cloning for backup, I do manual backups of files on the fly.
Comments -
* I would suggest keeping both Snow Leopard and Lion on the internal drive. Reason - even though firewire 800 is fast, it is still noticeably slower than an internal drive. OS's on an external drive will run slower than those on an internal drive.
• I don't like the concept of Time Machine. Amongst other things, it seems to want more space on the target volume than it actually needs; and it is not a bootable replication. A clone of a bootable volume is bootable.
• It was just a few days ago that I went through the same process as you are planning. One slight difference - I used a 1.0TB external partitioned into 3 equal volumes, since I had no need to allow space for Time Machine. I have Snow Leopard and Lion each on its own partition of the internal drive; and cloned backups of each on the external drive, plus one GP partition on the external drive.
• If you have not yet downloaded Lion, be prepared for it to take a while; it's almost 4GB in size. Probably be a good idea to defeat sleep for the duration.
• Cloning takes a while, but not that long - it took 30 minutes to clone 45GB to the external drive, and 45 minutes to clone it to the second internal partition.

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I’ve spent the last few months just hating OS X Lion. I thought Apple should have given it a better nickname, like “System Hang” or “Patience is a Virtue.” I spent more time starring at the dreaded spinning beach ball of death than I did getting work done. Where I once kept open as many browser windows and tabs as I liked, I began closing everything I didn’t absolutely need right then. Aperture 3, which I adore, had become impossible to use.
Things had gotten so frustrating, I was seriously thinking about doing a clean system install — something I used to have to do every 6-12 months with Windows, and was one of the reasons I made the switch.
But there were other things I could do to speed things up, and here they are in no particular order:
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• New CPU. I could install a non-sanctioned EFI update, and swap out my quad-core Xeon for something sexier. But not only is that expensive, it also voids my warranty.
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My Mac is a Mac again.

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I'm just curious if $500 is a good price for the 2007 Mac book pro. He tells me it is running Lion, it also includes a magic mouse. I just want to make sure I'm not walking into a bad deal.
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I've been thinking about this a lot, yet I don't feel I have a good solution for this, so I'm going to throw it out to the community.
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Well I'm not sure if I am following you but I will explain how I set mine up. When I got the Drobo I inserted 2 drives and selected the highest available volume I could (16TB). My drives are 4 TB each and I knew I would soon add 2 more. Then Drobo did its thing and prepared these drives. The Drobo shows up on my mini desktop as an external drive. When I log into my server from my other computer I can see the mini server volume and the Drobo volume. I can access each no problem. They act as regular volumes. Soon after I added the second two drives and everything stayed the same meaning I could still see and access the Drobo on the desktop of my mini. So it sounds like you used the Drobo dashboard to partition yours for two volumes? Are they both showing on the desktop?
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Hello, is there any way of having a reboot disk for lion that I'm downloading, like the one I have with snow leopard ?

Hello, is there any way of having a reboot disk for lion that I'm downloading, like the one I have with snow leopard ?

Once the Lion download is complete quit the installer and follow these directions. The file you need to make a boot disk disappears after you install Lion.
Egg Freckles | Burning A Lion Boot Disc
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