Joe, At work, I have my MacBook Pro printing from a USB port through a USB-to-parallel converting cable to an HP LaserJet 5MP printer, which must be 10 or 15 years old. The same sort of thing might work with Laserwriters.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Mon, 11/2/09, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > Finally had to dump my old EPS 800 when it stopped working > this year. Sad. Now I have to crank up my old Apple > Laserwriter 3500 for black only printing. I can't see > spending so much money on Epson ink to print a letter or > invoice. And now that Apple has ceased to support AppleTalk > in Snow Leopard, when I do upgrade I will have to put > together some kind of Ethernet to parallel contraption to > fool the printer, if I've read correctly. > > The iMac has no output for serial or parallel, and the > printer expects everything to come packetized within > AppleTalk or Ether-Talk over various cable types, serial, > parallel, Cat5, AppleTalk Mini-Din-8, and 422.. SCSI input > for external font storage and queuing on a network. > > And I bought two of the darn printers (they are very good) > 5 years ago for $15 each, and a toner cartridge for $100. > They print up to tabloid size for less than $.05 a sheet. My > other Laserwriter I bought for my G3 laptop, and it's > Appletalk only (mini-din-8). > > >> The difference is that Epson makes money on the > inks and they see the drivers as an expense. It > doesn't seem to occur to them that I need a driver to use > the inks. > > Joseph McAllister > [email protected] > > "Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus..." > http://tinyurl.com/ndmfhb > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
