printing via serial to usb cable

Wade Smart wadesmart at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 22:54:14 UTC 2009


Chris Mohler wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> Right, I should have to press go but then again, when Im using the echo
>> command, and using a serial to usb... it just doesnt understand.
>>
>> I just borrowed my friends inkjet and tried the parallel to usb and its
>> giving errors on his windows system as well.
>>
>> I give in on this one. Ill just find a $30 card. For now that is cheaper
>> than a new printer. :D
> 
> Should be cheaper than that - I had to grab on eof those last year,
> and I spent about $20 after tax/shipping.  A quick google turns up
> this one:
> http://www.allaboutadapters.com/hipapopcipri.html
> 
> Chris
> 

20090128 1653 GMT-5

I was thinking of going the other way and getting a laserjet specific 
network adapter.

Wade

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