Re: parallel adapter

Salvador Freemanson wrote:
Gordon wrote:
"Salvador Freemanson" <spam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:465dfaf0$0$7644$426a74cc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Gordon wrote:

A bit of lateral thinking. How do you connect to the internet? If via a router, add a pocket print server to the printer (D-Link make one - a DP-301P), ethernet cable from print server to port on router, and then set up the printer as a tcp/ip printer on the laptop. negates the need for any direct connection to the printer at all....
Neat, if rather costly.

About US$80.....


That's what I meant, even though it is more expensive over here.

Yeah, when you mentioned the LBP 8II I wondered where you were. That printer was very rare in the U.S. because it didn't support HP PCL.

For some reason we had a bunch of them in the lab at a company I worked at back in the 1990's, as we used them for some sort of development we were doing.

This is the sort of device that a lot of people probably have laying around unused, if you could find them. In the U.S we have something called "Freecycle" where I bet you could get one free, at least in the Silicon Valley area, and they also come up on craigslist for $10-40.
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