StyleWriter 2500 On my eMac 10.5 Leopard

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StyleWriter 2500 On my eMac 10.5 Leopard

HI! I have a Question: last week I needed to print a few pages and I have found my old StyleWriter 2500, beleave it or not it seems to be in very good condition. So I bought an ADB to USB adapter to see if I could make it pr on my eMac but no luck because of the drivers.

So, I have 3 questions:

1) is this possible to do this on a Mac OSX envarioment?

2) if it's possible can you please give me a hand to make it work? A step by step would be great!

3) I have the drivers of the ADB adapter, but can't find the printer ones, I need to download the ones from the StyleWriter 2500. Where can I do that?

thanks in advance!

eMac G4-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.5.8), eMac G4

Posted on Oct 21, 2015 3:10 AM

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Jan Hedlund

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Oct 21, 2015 4:34 AM in response to Carloselvis

Hi Carlos,

You have probably already printed a test page without a connected computer (or via an old Macintosh computer with a serial printer port, and the appropriate System 7.x - Mac OS 9.x printer software for that machine).

I have not tested it myself, but there are reports on the web about using a Colo(u)r StyleWriter 2500 under Mac OS X. To begin with, you may want to take a look at a couple of the "More Like This" links below.

Would it be correct to assume that "ADB" in this case is a typing error? The adapter needed would be USB-to-serial (with a MiniDIN-8 port). Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) is something else (for keyboards and mice, with a MiniDIN-4 connector). Which adapter make and model is it?

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Carloselvis Author

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Oct 21, 2015 4:44 AM in response to Jan Hedlund

I'm sorry Jan you are right MiniDIN-8 port. Its very similar to the ADB so I made the mistake.

This is the apater i have:

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/USB-to-DIN-8-Serial-Mac-iMac-G3-G4-G5-Mac-OS-X-iBook-/111 397661152

Thanks in advance Jan for your help!

Carlos

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Allan Jones

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Oct 21, 2015 7:57 AM in response to Carloselvis

The StyleWriter 2500 was built for Apple by Canon so you may find more resources if you expand the search to include similar Canon models.

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Jan Hedlund

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Oct 21, 2015 9:37 AM in response to Carloselvis

Carlos,

The web page http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/lpstyl (a link found in a reply by Grant Bennet-Alder under an old topic Colour StyleWriter 2500 on Mac OS X) with its reference to http://cw.kolleegium.ch/stylewriter/ could perhaps be of interest to you.

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Carloselvis Author

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Oct 21, 2015 9:42 AM in response to Jan Hedlund

Jan, what you sent is very interesting... I will give it a try. Is this tested?

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Jan Hedlund

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Oct 21, 2015 9:49 AM in response to Carloselvis

Carlos,

It all appears to be well documented, so it would probably be correct to believe that it has been tested. However, things like these are not without complication, so be prepared to experiment.

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