If it will help someone along to taking this, I'm pretty sure that I have a spare external HP JetDirect box that will manage the parallel to Ethernet problem. Speaks TCP/IP, IPX/SPX & heaven knows what else.



On Mar 7, 2011, at 6:20 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com> wrote:

> On 03/07 12:32 , Yaron wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Scott Raun wrote:
>> 
>>> Now this last I _know_ is not true. I used to put JetDirect cards in
>>> those behemoths. Then they do network printing just fine.
>> 
>> Yeah, and if you attach a jet engine to it it can probably go pretty fast, 
>> too. I'm only talking about the one I'm giving away, though! (:
> 
> I saw a t-shirt the other day that said "Given sufficient thrust, pigs fly
> just fine".
> 
> Really tho, by today's standards the Laserjet4 is nearly indestructible.
> Also, pretty much every OS that regularly sent stuff to a printer will have
> a driver for it.
> 
> -- 
> Carl Soderstrom
> Systems Administrator
> Real-Time Enterprises
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