[muglo] Re: Dot matrix printer

  • From: "Eric Dunbar" <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:44:00 -0500

On 30/03/06, Tee Cashmore <teecashmore@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 30-Mar-06, at 7:02 AM, Theresa Roth wrote:
>
> > I belong to freecycle and every week there is a printer offered.
> > Everything
> > is free. You must be a member of Yahoo to join.  Here is the link for
> > the
> > group.
> >
> >     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freecycleLondonOntario/
>
> The problem with all the printers I've seen on that site is that they
> are parallel for Windoze computers.

You can now get lots of (cheap) parallel to USB adapters (I believe
they are more common than serial USB adapters) for newer Macs and, use
the CUPS (common UNIX printing system) built into Mac OS X.

Eric.
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