Very cool product, and well worth it if you've got access to a Laser
Printer for example that doesn't support Mac's. I used their Serial
version a few years ago, and it was very handy. Got to agree, excellent
product that supports a LOT of printers.
Zane
>Hi all. Just thought I'd let you know about a cool product I've found.
>
>My father, who up until this time has been running various apple2 computers,
>(which is how I got into classic computers as a hobby, by the way) just
>acquired an iMac. All is well and good except he wants to run his Sears
>Epson
>fx85-alike from it. And as I discovered, the official Epson USB-Parallel
>adapter doesn't do anything that far back.
>
>So whilst at CompUSA last night I happened across InfoWave's PowerPrint
>USB - Parallel adapter. After some checking to see if they claimed to support
>old Epson 9pins, I bought it. Plugged it into the USB port on my wife's
>mac, asked her to load the software, plugged it into my own Epson LX800 -
>which uses the same driver - and it printed perfectly. It's a bit of a mess
>to UNINSTALL, if you don't have extention management loaded, but my wife is a
>mac power user and eventually got things cleaned up.
>
>It's not cheap, - about a hundred bucks US - but even more than classic
>computers, classic printers don't wear out, and with this package there's no
>need to replace them just because you got an iMac.
>
>Their web page is at www.infowave.com, and it lists what printers the
>software,
>PowerPrint, supports. Apparently they also make a Mac-serial to parallel
>adapter, and the USB version is just ported over from the software from that.
>--
>Jim Strickland
>jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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Received on Sun Jan 24 1999 - 15:33:56 GMT