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Re: Parallel card work with *modern* printers?
- Subject: Re: Parallel card work with *modern* printers?
- From: "Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paulrsm@ameritech.net>
- Date: 2000/07/11
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Ameritech.Net www.ameritech.net Complaints: abuse@ameritech.net
- References: <uIHa5.9$jS4.3916@feed.centuryinter.net>
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.
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Paul R. Santa-Maria
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
paulrsm@ameritech.net