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Re: printing in the future



Ken,

I've used my Deskwriter on the Mac with a driver for an HP DeskJet driver
(PowerPrint for the Mac). It works fine. I think you CAN print to your
Deskwriter from a Windows DeskJet 550C Driver through your COM port.

There are various articles on AOL on how to do it.

Although IBM DeskJets are going for as little as $139.00....

Al Hartman
Computer Expressions.

ken.brockman@jhuapl.edu (Ken Brockman) wrote:

I have a HP DeskWriter 550C.  HP has said that the Windows HP DeskJet
driver will not run the Mac printer.  Any thoughts on whether or not
Executor (V.?) will be able to run the Mac HP DW driver and/or appletalk
through a PC serial port to a DIN 8 cable.

I am at a choice point of looking forward to Executor or having to buy
hardware to run appletalk on the PC or use ethernet (more H/W) and set up
a
print server on a mac (I would need to code it up since apple doesn't run
appletalk over serial and ether at same time and I haven't seen a network
print server for non-postscript printers).

ken


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