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)
(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.)
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
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!