| From: | Gary Beeton |
| Date: | 22 Jan 2000 at 05:38:34 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Print cables |
From: "Gary Beeton" <gbeeton@home.com>
On 21-Jan-00 19:15:21, J & J Wasilewski wrote:
> From: "J & J Wasilewski" <John@Wasilewski.co.uk>
>>
>> > PMFJIH, but since we're talking about printers, I have a
>> > question. Do we still need special Amiga printer cables? I
>> > remeber a time when we did due to the extra voltage lines
>> > our parallel ports provide. Very bad thing for most
>> > printers. Also, if standard cables are fine, what's the
>> > longest that can reliable run on an Amiga?
>>
>> I have a regular PC printer cable hooked from my Amiga 4000 to
>> my laserjet III printer. This cable is six foot.
>>
> Good grief. I didn't know we ever needed special cables. I
> just stuck in a Centronics // cable and it worked. Am I just
> dead lucky, or what?
Actually, the Amiga // port follows the Centronics standard. Modern
PC // ports do not. So your Centronics cable is a perfect match for
the Amiga.
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