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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Canon printer on a Mac Classic
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 15:32:33 GMT
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- Jonas B. Nielsen (jonasbn@diku.dk) wrote:
- : A friend of mine has borrowed this old Mac Classic, and she wanted to borrow my
- : Canon printer which I use with my A500 - BUT!
-
- : The Mac only has one port which looks like the parallel port on the Amiga, and
- : this port is reserved for an external diskdrive.
- : The printer port is an ugly little round thing!!
- : Does any one out there whether this can be done at all, does there exist any
- : kind of adaptor or anything??
-
- The printer port on a Mac is a serial port, and cables should be
- available at a Mac dealer or through mail order. Of course, you'll need
- a serial port on the printer, too. Then you need to find a printer
- driver for the Mac, which is usually a humiliating and difficult task.
-
- It may be easier to save the graphics to a file on the Mac, then transfer
- it to the Amiga by terminal program, then print it from the Amiga. If
- both the Mac and the Amiga have high-density drives (unlikely), you can
- transfer the files on disks.
-
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