Re: Parallel card work with *modern* printers?

["Jason Whorton" <jason@microxl.com>]

If it is a printer from the last few years, it probably needs an ECP or EPP
type printer port or bi-directional, so I don't know if they would work.

Thank you,
Jason Whorton
www.microxl.com/oldcomputers/main.html
www.microxl.com/oldcomputers/Model60.html


Paul R. Santa-Maria <paulrsm@ameritech.net> wrote in message
news:01bfeb8a$43bc6ea0$62d18dce@paulrsm...
> Theusch Family <theusch@centurytel.net> wrote:
> > I have a parallel card made by who knows who with a connector that can
> fit
> > my modern HP 712c.  Can I print from an Apple file://e running
> appleworks??
>
> You won't fry anything (assuming a good card) but it won't work.  The
> DeskJet 712C is one of the HP printers that is MS Windows only.  To cut
> costs, the printer has no brains; the computer it is connected to does all
> the work.  HP calls this technology "Printing Performance Architecture" or
> PPA.
>
> --
>
> Paul R. Santa-Maria
> Ann Arbor, Michigan  USA
> paulrsm@ameritech.net
>
>