On 18/11/2004, at 10:11 PM, Edward Arrowsmith wrote:
I am a friend of Edward who posts on this list and have a request for
assistance.
Trying to hook an Apple LaserWriter 360 printer up to a 12" iBook. The
printer has a RS-232 Serial DB25 pin port. I need an adaptor to go
from the iBook USB port to the 25 pin port on the printer.
The printer also has a LocalTalk or 36 pin Centronics type Parallel
connector for which I would also need a USB adaptor.
Janis:
I see you're having trouble with the Laserwriter I sold you.
Your best bet is a Farallon EtherMac iPrint Adaptor, which will
interface the printer with an Ethernet network, which your iBook should
have. I was selling one in the lot of stuff I was putting on ebay but
someone else bought mine. Another competing product is AsanteTalk:
http://www.asante.com/products/adapters/asantetalk/
There are USB to Parallel adaptors but they sound fairly tricky to set
up for OS X:
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?
Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=1833&pcount=&Product_Id=106009&Section.Section_P
ath=%2FUSB%2FAdaptersAndCables%2F
Hope it works out for you.
Cheers, Glen Low
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