[WinMac] Powerbook & bidirectional parallel port?
Donna Pointer(dpointer[at]orchard.washtenaw.cc.mi.us)
<http://www.infowave.com/> is the site for Infowave, the company that makes/distributes PowerPrint. Why not contact them directly and find out the exact answer? Donna Pointer >From: John R. Nash@EKLAN01 on 09/09/98 09:08 AM > > >To: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu@internet >cc: powerlist@ogrady.com >Subject: Powerbook & bidirectional parallel port? > >________________________________________ >Hi all- > Here's a query about something that I think would be >very useful, but I have not been able to locate. > I have several PC-compatible pieces of hardware that >I would like to access from Virtual PC running on a Powerbook G3. >Macs don't have parallel ports, of course, but Infowave's PowerPrint >comes with a Mac-serial-to-PC-parallel converter cable. In >theory, VPC can use this to talk to parallel devices, and there's >a description of how to do this on Connectix's web page. However, >I have been unable to get this to work using VPC 2.1/Win95 and a >Casio DP-8000 printer. (I get "printer not responding errors" and >windows application crashes...) > My hunch is that PowerPrint is a monodirectional parallel >implementation, since most PC printers don't talk back to the computer. >It seems likely that the Casio printer is trying to communicate back >to the computer and failing to do so. So, what I seek is a >bidirectional parallel interface for the powerbook. It strikes me >that such an interface would probably work best from the PC Card >port, since it could potentially be a cross-platform solution for >powerbooks and PC notebooks without parallel ports (or in need of >an additional one). My web searching so far has come up empty. > So, has anyone managed to talk to a bidirectional parallel >printer or scanner from a powerbook, or heard of a product that might >help? Thanks! >
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