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At 7:31 AM -0400 5/11/03, Ilyse Kazar scribbled:
>Our trusty old HP LaserJet 5MP, circa 1995, is still chugging
>along and is still the cheapest way to print b&w. We really do
>not want to dump it, but it does not have an ethernet interface,
>only parallel and Mac serial. So we are hanging onto our old G3
>Beige for the sole purpose of using its serial port via the
>LaserWriter Bridge hack to allow other machines (except the XP,
>which is OK) to print to the LaserJet.
>
>
>4. Any other options I haven't thought of?
>
Here's another option not for the faint of heart:
Take a dumpster dive somewhere and scrounge up an old Pentium-class
CPU. Toss a 2-4GB drive in it and load Linux, CUPS, and Netatalk and
share the printer on your LAN, connected to the parallel port.
Toss an extra NIC in it and it can be your Firewall/Router as well.
Throw Samba into the mix and you have a cross-platorm file server.
...ROMeyn
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