[NTLUG:Discuss] USB printer?

[Terry Henderson]

You might try and get a parallel card, or look on the mother board and
see if there are pins for connecting a parallel data cable and just
get the adapter for it.

On 6/23/06, steve <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> wrote:
> My computer got taken out in a storm recently - I replaced it with a
> cheap 'bare bones' Shuttle system which is happily running SuSE 9.3.
>
> Unfortunately, I neglected to notice that the Shuttle has no
> parallel printer port - and since my trusty HP OfficeJet K80
> has not other kind of port - I'm kinda screwed.
>
> So - should I:
>
> * Seek some kind of gizmo to convert USB to parallel (or
>    maybe regular RS232 to parallel, or Wireless to parallel)?
>    Do such things exist?  Do they work under Linux?
>
> * Dump the printer and buy a new one with a USB (or what?) port
>    on it - on the grounds that printers are now cheaper than the
>    ink cartridges they run on?
>
> * Something else?
>
> How well are these various options supported in SuSE 9.3 ?
>
> (If all else faile, I can move the printer onto my firewall
> machine and use remote printing - but that's running some
> incredibly ancient version of Linux and has been stripped of
> all non-essential software - so making this work would be a
> considerable time-burden that I really don't want to face!)
>
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