From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Mon Nov 21 2005 - 08:53:18 PST
On Nov 20, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Brian wrote:
> Marty - I'm attempting to connect a Newton to a printer (HP -
> PSC1315) using a cable connection.
>
That won't work. Your best bet it to hook the printer to a desktop PC
or Mac and then configure the Newton to print through the PC using the
LPR driver. If you are lucky enough to have OSX then this is pretty
easy and hooking the newton to the mac is the hard part.
It is possible to do this via Ethernet/Wireless (802.11b) and also
should be possible via Bluetooth.
There are two problems with this printer 1) USB only 2) It only support
a printing language that Newton has never heard of.
Using OSX as a print go-between allows it to translate the language the
Newton understands (ie postscript) into the language the printer
understands (ie Lightweight imaging device interface language
(LIDIL)).
Hope this helps.
Marty
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