On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:51:28PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > I would like to be able to just plug in the printer on > my USB port & print; I don't have any other reliable way of getting > data into the printer (no cd-burner, mac's have no disk drives).
Macs have disk drives. Zip drives, floppy drives, magneto-optical drives, you name it, you can hook it to a Mac. By default, maybe not, but many do. Both of my Macintosh towers came with internal Zip drives. You can get a USB floppy for *cheap*. I imagine your laptop has ethernet. I can't imagine a Mac that can run OS X that *doesn't*. > Printing doesn't have to be perfect, I just have to be able to read > the text... is there a package that can probe for printer info & set > up a new printer e.g. from CUPS or some other print queue manager? Ah, you run CUPS. As long as the Mac is running OS X 10.3.something, tell the Mac to share its printer(s). Your copy of CUPS on your laptop will pick up the shared printers from the Mac. I can't stand CUPS, but it *does* at least do that well. -- Marc Wilson | It doesn't matter what you do, it only matters what [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you say you've done and what you're going to do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
