Getting Tiger to see my HP PSC 500

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Getting Tiger to see my HP PSC 500

I have my printer hooked up to my Powerbook via a Adaptec PowerDomain APA-1480 Slim SCSI card, as the printer in question only has the old 1" long serial connector. I am haveing trouble getting Tiger to recognize the printer. Any ideas?

Powerbook G4 17" 1Ghz, 1Gig Ram, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Aug 22, 2006 11:02 PM

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Answer 1

greg sahli

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Aug 23, 2006 5:26 AM in response to Corrda

SCSI and serial are not compatible in any way.

You'll probably need to use a USB-to-serial adapter. Read here:
http://webpages.charter.net/mbroughtn/serial_printing.html

(Also, I have an old NetQue print server (ethernet) that has a serial printer port on it, so if you could find one, that would be a good route to go with.)

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Answer 2

Aug 28, 2006 7:29 AM in response to Corrda

Hello
I was looking into your issue and i am sorry to say the printer well not work on your mac as it is not mac compatiable there are no drivers for the PSC 500 series at all.

HP PSC 500 Series Product Family - HP PSC 500 Product Specifications

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=58710&lan g=en&docname=bpu02200#N722

Here is the driver list nothing Mac

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?product=58710&lc=en&cc=us&dl c=en&lang=en&cc=us

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Answer 3

Nov 8, 2006 2:50 PM in response to Ottawaguy

This is not actually true. If you use the HP IJS driver
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/
then you can print from Mac OS X. However, currently I have to do this through the network as Mac OS X does not seem to like my USB/Parallel port adapter. Printing is okay but has no black just a dirty grey caused by mixing the colours together and using no black.

Printing in Mac OS is disappointing to say the least: I can print better using BeOS using essentially the same drivers!

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