Re: Printer ?

[John Black]

Go for a USB printer. There are some good deals out there. I had the 
same problem with OS X, so I bought a Brother HL-1440, marked down from 
$180 to $125. This has proven to be an excellent printer with a small 
footprint and speed. I just this past week saw the same printer at 
Staples marked down to $99.

I later parted out my LW IIg and got almost as much on eBay for the 
parts as the new printer cost me. I think we're often inclined to hold 
onto computer stuff too long, when getting rid of it and buying a more 
current piece of hardware makes functional and economic sense.

John Black
Nashville, TN
On Saturday, May 22, 2004, at 02:32  PM, G-List wrote:
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Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 08:27:38 -0700
From: Clark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer ?
At 2:57 PM -0500 5/20/04, Dan A. Currie, Jr. wrote:
Hello All,
I have a Beige G3/500 with 512 MB RAM, 9 GB HD and 120 GB HD. I am
running OS 10.2.8 and Classic OS (9.2.2)  underneath.  I have an
older  HP Deskjet 870Cse that works fine with Classic but I cannot
find drivers for it in 10.2.8.  I cannot see the expense of
discarding a perfectly good printer just because it has no USB port.
Worse yet, it has AppleTalk so you could still connect it that way
but there is no driver for it.  I have some HP 85X printers which use
the same driver as the 870.  I ended up getting a newer printer, the
HP 5850 which has both wired and wireless Ethernet connections (as
well as USB).
I tried installing some third party drivers but could never get them 
to work.
--
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting

"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"

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