I've only a few things to add to this discussion about printing in USB -- most
everything has already been said. But, I will summarize. USB support in the
BIOS (for computers that even still have a BIOS) is usually limited to some
subset of mouse, keyboard, and/or mass storage (disk drives).
On 21 Apr 2021 at 19:46, Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
> Eek, Frank:
>
> > oh that's right. Suppose that you have good support in the BIOS for
> > your USB keyboard, USB mouse and USB mass storage.
>
> Yes, I have a KVM switch driving both a keyboard and mouse from the
> DOS PC!
>
> > Then you
Dan:
I was born in '86 so by the time I started playing on computers it was
in the Windows 95 days, and my first time actually using a computer with
any real idea of what I was doing was on Windows 98.
I played Lunar Lander in `73 on a Teletype.
By that time
everything I needed to do was
Eek, Frank:
oh that's right. Suppose that you have good support in the BIOS for
your USB keyboard, USB mouse and USB mass storage.
Yes, I have a KVM switch driving both a keyboard and mouse from the DOS PC!
Then you install
the USB LPT driver by Bret Johnson, which takes over the whole
So, Frank:
...just to follow up on what others have said, Bryan's printer is too
old to support PDF, but it is a pretty decent color laser apparently,
likely supports PCL5 in "HP emulation" mode, and something called
"BR-script (PostScript layer 3 emulation)" which I hope gets rendered
in the
