IEEE-1284 devices and OSX

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  1. Wotan31, Mar 27, 2009

    Wotan31 macrumors 6502

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    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!
     
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  2. belvdr, Mar 27, 2009

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    Not natively, however there are USB to ieee-1284 devices available.
     
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  3. Blue Velvet, Mar 27, 2009

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    What kind of devices, out of curiosity?
     
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  4. Wotan31, Mar 27, 2009

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    Commercial dot-matrix printers.
     
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  5. old-wiz, Mar 27, 2009

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