Serial/usb adapters for Apple Personal Laser Writer 300

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Serial/usb adapters for Apple Personal Laser Writer 300

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Please, how to plug my old SERIAL Apple Personal laser writer 300 on a USB OSX Mac.
If I can find some adapters, does a driver exists?

Thanks

Christophe
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Re: Serial/usb adapters for Apple Personal Laser Writer 300

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before you invest $80 for a Keyspan
USB to serial adapter including lot of work and troubles (only working in classic).
there is no OSX driver available for laserwriter 300LS

it's time to invest in a new printer like:
Canon PiXMA 4000 @ $200
including color photo printing.
printing duplex (double sided)
and last but most important printing on cds.
while staying compatible with osx .... tiger

low cost printing based on single ink cartridges
(photoblack, black, yellow, magenta, cyan) and no photocolors (photocyan, photomagenta).
you just by ink without any cartridge and you buy just the ink that ist empty.

hucky bruegger @ redline musicware
going of topic - this is not the place - there is no osx place to talk about mosaic printing solutions.
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Re: Serial/usb adapters for Apple Personal Laser Writer 300

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Originally posted by Christophe:
Please, how to plug my old SERIAL Apple Personal laser writer 300 on a USB OSX Mac.
If I can find some adapters, does a driver exists?

Thanks

Christophe
I have used Asante's "Asante Talk" Ethernet to Localtalk Bridge for 5 years now, works great. I have an old HP 5MP LaserJet.

Check it out:

http://www.asante.com/products/productsLvl3/AsanteTalk.asp

Peace
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