On Feb 3, 2005, at 1:51 AM, Larry le Mac wrote:
PRINTING!
Remeber, we're talking real budget here and I can donate a Mac which has a real value of less than $100, however, as they are (successfully) currently using an LPT laser printer, the Mac CAN'T print to it...
What printer is it? A USB-Parallel adapter is reasonably cheap, less than $100 certainly.
So if I want to help them upgrade from a Pentium 400 to a B&W 300 (yes, even I regard 400-300MHz as an upgrade) I have to buy a new printer.
We have three printers here at work, and only the one in my room is PostScript compatible. As the sole Mac user I cannot even dream about printing to the other two. (HP 1200 and some Xerox thing...)
OS X prints quite happily to the HP 1200, and what Xerox printer is it? Gimp-Print will work, most likely. Gimp-Print (built into 10.3, and installable on 10.2) works with all sorts of non-postscript printers.
In fact, I ended up using the PCL driver for my HP 4M at home because it's an early HP4 and has a different postscript version than the built-in driver in 10.2, and I get weird PS errors. Using the Gimp-Print PCL driver for it works like a charm.
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