[PCI] Re: Printer to Hang on my wife's 8500 (was: HP Printer Madness...)

[Mike T.]

I set my parental units up with a 5500/225/96mb ram/OS9.1, a cheap $20 
usb 1.1 PCI card, a US Robotics modem I had lying around and a Canon USB 
bubble jet printer that was on sale at WalMart.com for $42. The specs 
for the printer said PC/Mac 8.5-X and they were right. Is it a state of 
the art printer? No. Is the ink probably more than the printer in cost? 
Probably. Hell, the printer cost me more than the computer itself! But 
they don't net-surf a lot or print much (just travel info) and it is 
pretty compact for a bubble jet printer, and it gets the job done. 
Problem solved. My .02.

..........................................Mike T.



Fluxstringer wrote:

PCI "peeps"(?...):

It has become clear that the sweet and cheap little HP Deskjet 3520 I 
bought
for my wife won't work on her 8500, even with the Belkin USB card I also
bought and Apple USB Card Support 1.4.1. -- HP Customer Support said 
so ("we
only support built-in USB and G3... rumble-rumble..."), even though
hpshopping.com didn't.  I have the RMA in my hot little hand;  what I
_don't_ have is a printer solution for my wife.

I need an inexpensive color printer for a PM 8500 running OS 9.1.  It 
could
be a _proven_ USB solution (now that I have the Belkin card), or it 
could be
serial.  Space is also an issue.

I really feel the need to get it right this time, folks, so please 
burnish
your wisdom and help me out.  What are you using on your PCI Macs?  
Which
printers are reliable?  How well do they work with "plain" paper?  Et
cetera...

Thanks in advance,

-- Joshua



PeepsCI ?

Anyway, I'm on my second Lexmark. Works first time every time. Dartek 
practically gives them away. I paid $ 42.38 for a Z45 and got a $ 
40.00 rebate !   I've seen Z25s for less than $ 20.00  .


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