From: Martin Joseph (martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com)
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 21:08:12 PDT
On Oct 17, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Matt Howe wrote:
> With the move to USB and network aware printers, has anyone out there
> figured out how to print to a network printer? I have the print pack
> and the
> Newton serial to parallel converter. But in this day and age, parallel
> printers are becoming more rare. So the logical and convenient method
> would
> be to print through the Newton's network interface. I have a Newton
> 2100upg,
> an Ethernet card and a wifi card, all working perfectly. I have a
> Epson, USB
> printer shared on an XP box. So, any insights?
There is an LPR driver that was originally written by Eckhart Koppen
and was then cleaned up a bit by Paul Guyot. This let you print to
many LPR spools. OSX for example can then become the "server" which
processes print jobs to modern USB inkjets. Look Here:
http://www.kallisys.com/newton/lpr/en
As far as setting up XP to handle this? YOYO MOFO.
:~)
Marty
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