gandy
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 Posted: 07/14/06 - 04:00 Post subject: Need Printer connection advice for mac |
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OK, here's my situation. I have a G-4 Mac, and a really, really old printer that I'd like to hook up. Unfortunately, the printer only has serial and parallel ports, no Ethernet, no USB. I imagine I could still connect these using some sort of a cable that has a USB adapter on one side, and a parallel one on the other… but I don't know what this sort of connector is called. Are they expensive? Also, is there any other way to add this printer? Thanks in advance.
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kallen
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Generally, it's called an adapter. In this case, it's just a USB-to-parallel adapter or cable. You shouldn't have trouble locating one, and they're usually cheap. An alternate method for connecting these two would be a print server. This would cost a little more, but if you're on a LAN (or planning to be) than you'd need a router anyway, and a print server wouldn't be that much of an addition (and way more efficient than cable-linking each machine to the printer's hub).
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