[NTLK] USB-001 Mod & Printing

[Chris Browder]

So then your choices are:

Upgrade to USB connection to a more modern computer, forgoing any form of
serial communication (it reroutes the interconnect and it cannot be used
with the mod installed); and print via LPR or IRDA (Found out today the LPR
driver must be frozen to print over IRDA)

Do not upgrade to USB, try and find printers with parallels ports ....

really, it seems like IRDA and LPR are the only viable options anymore,
unless you happen to have an ages old printer with a parallel port.

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Andrei Chichak <newton at chichak.ca> wrote:

> It isn't that simple.
>
> The USB-001 is a device side USB thingie, like a keyboard or a printer.
>
> That would be like having a keyboard talk to a printer, both of them were
> designed to talk to a computer.
>
> To print, you need a dongle and the print pack.
>
> Andrei
>
>
> On 2012-November-29, at 1:07 PM, Chris Browder wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Has anyone installed the NewtonSales.com USB-001 mod? Have you tried
> > printing over USB to an HP or Canon printer using the PrintPack with it?
> >
> > This adapter would give you a male-B connector from the mini-B to Male-A
> > connector cable that you'd use to connect it to your computer:
> > http://www.amazon.com/USB-Type-Female-Male-Adapter/dp/B000AA2SMS
> >
> > I wonder because of how USB works, I don't know if it would really be
> 'that
> > simple,' but since the InterConnect is rerouted to the USB.... it makes
> me
> > wonder.
> >
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