On 3/6/02 22:42, "Stew Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > >> The bridge is a little connection, that transforms serial Appletalk into >> ethernet. >> Ansanté and Farallon sell these bridges. These printers were connected to old >> Macintosh computers to a serial port. Nowadays, these port are no longer on >> new Macs >> and these bridges can then be used to connect these printers to newer Macs. I >> have a >> Laserwriter 320 (bought it for 75 guilders, plus a newly filled toner a 100 >> guilders, >> sum = 175 guilders) connected to an iMac 400 with such a bridge, I should >> check at >> home the brand name of the bridge. >> > > So it sounds much like a print server, which you treat like an lpd server > on another machine. You just setup the server name or IP and the port > (some, like one of mine have multiple ports), along with your printer type > etc. The existing tools allow this type of setup now. > >> These bridges are also very cheap, I bought one for eighty guilders (around >> 35 euro). >> >> This could be bought by you I think as people donate to the ppc-port, don't >> they ? >> > > People do donate I suppose, but that money doesn't land in my expense > account. You're working under the assumption that the PPC port is > profitable and there is extra money to expand the effort, > > Stew Benedict Well, I tried this. You then have to manually edit the printcap file. This did not work out. The astonishing thing was that I already configured my HP Deskjet USB printer under Mandrake, with Harddrake. But there was nothing in printcap ! So obviously the lpd does not look in there only... ------------------------------------------ Best regards, Jeroen Diederen http://diederen.demon.nl
