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*.
fair enough. I guess I meant "the mac I'm going to be using, a standard-equipped model, has no floppy drive, & I'd rather not buy one to attach to it since it's not mine."
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.
this assumes that we're attached to a network atthe same time, right? and if not... should I bring a cross-cable that connects the two computers?
& actually I don't think I am running CUPS on the laptop right now, though I don't have it at my fingertips right now.
I can't stand CUPS, but it *does* at least do that well.
... so... maybe my problem is solved. but is there any possiblity at all of a package that scans (usb| parport) & tries to match the printers it finds with a printer description/ppd? This owuld be a more elegant solution, IMO.
matt
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