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Re: Parallel card work with *modern* printers?



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