OS X Odds & Ends: HP Tray 3 work-around; Quicken Date conflict

HP Tray 3 work-around Kevin Patfield writes: Regarding your previous report that tray 3 on the LaserJet 2100 did not work under OS X, there is a work-around while waiting for HP to fix their driver. The problem is only that the driver is unable to interrogate the printer to determine whether the tray is installed or not. Assuming you know that it is, the fix is very simple: Change the default value of the option from False to True. To do this, open the PPD file at Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/HP LaserJet 2100 Series with TextEdit and look for the string <*DefaultHPOption_Tray3: False>. Change the default to True and save the file. Delete and add the printer back in and you're good to print on tray 3. While messing with the file you might want to change the *DefaultInstalledMemory if you have more than 6 MB since that's probably not being set properly either. Of course, for non-English systems one should use a slightly different path, such as */de.lproj/* for German systems."

Quicken Date conflict Mark Sealey writes: "Quicken 2002 (and possibly other versions that work on OS X) insist that the format of the System Date be left as default in the International System Preferences. Changing as much as the 12 to 24 hour clock - and thus making it 'Custom' - causes Quicken 2002 Deluxe to choke under OS X (but not Classic) such that all attempts to enter new scheduled transactions (in the Calendar) wrongly set the date as 'correctmonth/correctday/2020' and do not allow you to enter values for any other year, including, say 2001 and 2002! Intuit confirms this."

Update: Two readers report not having this symptom.