IEEE-1284 devices and OSX

[Wotan31]

Can anyone comment on the state of IEEE-1284 support in OSX? Specifically in version 10.5 (or the upcoming 10.6)?

We have several such devices and are considering changing over to Mac platform to run them, but first need to know if the protocol is supported at the OS layer.

TIA!

 

[belvdr]

Not natively, however there are USB to ieee-1284 devices available.

 

[Blue Velvet]

We have several such devices

What kind of devices, out of curiosity?

 

[Wotan31]

What kind of devices, out of curiosity?

Commercial dot-matrix printers.

 

[old-wiz]

my goodness...who's still using the old Centronics printer interface?
Easy enough to get a usb-to-parallel adapter.