HP Printer Drivers

2002-08-13 Thread BearAZ
Greetings from Sunny Arizona! New to the list...but ya gotta start someplace! So, I'll start with the easy stuff first. I want to hook up my HP Deskwriter 660C printer to my IIcx which is running OS 6.0.8. Possible? Which drivers? Source for same? Any and all advice on this will be

Re: HP Printer Drivers

2002-08-13 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- BearAZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings from Sunny Arizona! New to the list...but ya gotta start someplace! So, I'll start with the easy stuff first. I want to hook up my HP Deskwriter 660C printer to my IIcx which is running OS 6.0.8. Possible? Which drivers? Source for same?

Re: HP Printer Drivers

2002-08-13 Thread Marten van de Kraats
--- BearAZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to hook up my HP Deskwriter 660C printer to my IIcx which is running OS 6.0.8. Possible? Which drivers? Source for same? You'll have to come up with PowerPrint 4.5.2 or older. It's a software and serial to parallel cable combination.

Re: HP Printer Drivers

2002-08-13 Thread the pickle
At 11:49 +0200 on 13/08/02, Marten van de Kraats wrote: Didn't the 660c have a normal Macintosh printer/localtalk port? How early is the 660c? All HP inkjets with writer in the name are Mac-compatible. The problem here is likely going to be finding drivers that work with System 6, although

Re: HP Printer Drivers

2002-08-13 Thread Clark Martin
At 2:31 AM -0700 8/13/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- BearAZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings from Sunny Arizona! New to the list...but ya gotta start someplace! So, I'll start with the easy stuff first. I want to hook up my HP Deskwriter 660C printer to my IIcx which is running OS

Re: HP Printer Drivers

2002-08-13 Thread Marten van de Kraats
You need either a printer cable or LocalTalk / PhoneNet hardware. Drivers are from HP. I don't know about version. The latest drivers are written for more modern versions of the OS but they may work on OS 6.0.8. Olde, system 6 compatilbe versions of the hp driver software are availalable in

Re: HP Printer Drivers

2002-08-13 Thread Marten van de Kraats
The problem here is likely going to be finding drivers that work with System 6, although FWIW, the IIcx will handle 7.1 quite nicely, and you might be able to find drivers for that OS more easily. -- the pickle Huh... What's the fun in that? Marten --

Re: HP Printer Drivers

2002-08-13 Thread the pickle
At 18:26 +0200 on 13/08/02, Marten van de Kraats wrote: Olde, system 6 compatilbe versions of the hp driver software are availalable in the driver museum. Yeah, for printers that were around when System 6 was still in widespread usage. The 660c is recent enough (1997-ish, IIRC) that it