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jjbomfim
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on: January 24, 2008, 13:05
If tere's a PC printer (laser or inkjet) laying around, you can get a Powerprint cable and use it with your old Mac. Powerprint is a printer cable that was made for Macs so they could use PC printers. It's supposed to work with almost ALL PC printers, and from my experience that is pretty much correct. I use it on my 1400c and on my Duo to print on my laser printers (a very old Epson ActionLaser and a not so old Brother), none of which have any Mac interfaces. The cable is Mac serial port on one end and PC parallel printer port on the other, and Powerprint's software handles the conversion from Mac to PC. Besides my two printers, I have used it on some HPs, NECs, and also on some inkjet printers. Oh, and on the Brother, it also handles duplex printing. I got my cable from eBay years ago. If anybody snaps one up without the software, let me know. What I have works on both 7.6.1 and 7.5.5 (haven't tested on anything else). The only downside is that printing will be slower, especially when printing lots of graphics. With text it works pretty fast. The processor you have will also play a part, as there is a notable difference from the 33Mhz Duo to the G3 upgraded 1400. I'd be surprised if there wasn't. With used HP Laserjet printers going for nothing these days, getting one of these cables and hooking a printer to your Classic Mac could be quite useful. Bomfim |
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Minimalist
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128 MB Posts: 186
Reply #1 on: January 24, 2008, 20:07
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I use a cheap Brother HL2040 laser printer for my Macs. Only I share my printer on my LAN by attaching it to the USB port on my Linux based file server. Since my file server is powered on 24 hours a day, I simply use netatalk to share the printer to all of my Macs. It works quite well. Using Linux and netatalk you can attach any PC printer to your Macs through the ethernet cable. It's quite easy to setup and gives old Classic Mac OS machines access to printers that it would otherwise never be able to use.
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