[Leaplist] The Continuing Saga of the Haunted Hardware

[Danny W. Burdick]

All of this printer inadequacy can be diverted by using an ethernet to 
parallel port direct box
known by many names...jetdirect being hp's
new they can be expensive...but I remember seeing them at compusa before 
they went belly up
for maybe $40
I personally use them everywhere at home and at work and then the 
linux/windows issue is moot
the dumb at ss printers think they are talking to windows no matter what....
and the linux boxen are setup to address a networked tcpip printer 
batch.....

that's one way out....



Hank Lambert wrote:
>
> I am on the HPLIP website and when looking at the supported HP 
> printers, many of them are not supported via parallel, even though 
> they have parallel ports. Those are only supported via USB. I wonder 
> if that is what you are running up against.
>
> Hank Lambert
> KB4MTO
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>
>
> Damien McKenna wrote:
>> On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:21 PM, Bruce Metcalf wrote:
>>> As we discussed Thursday at the meeting-after-the-meeting, I have 
>>> several systems that refuse to communicate with parallel port printers.
>>> The systems are a variety of Intel and AMD; 600MHz to 1GHz; OS 
>>> include Win2kPro and Kubuntu 7.10; and three different models of HP 
>>> printers, 720, 820C, and 1000C.
>>
>>
>> See if you can find a USB-to-Parallel adapter.  I've used the HP 822C 
>> on Windows 2000 and Linux in the past, though I don't remember if it 
>> was via parallel or USB.
>>
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