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Question about Old printer / USB

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I have an old printer I wanna give someone for University. It has an old, large serial plug and will not hook up to the new Macs.


I know I know..Icould buy a nw printer...but...anyway.....
Is there an adapter to plug in that drops it to A USB..or will it not sync????
 
you would likely end up spends half as much for the adapter as you would for a printer.........Not to mention ink costs for an older one
 
A serial plug? Are you sure it's not a parallel port?

A parallel-to-USB adapter is like $30 and less but they can be hard to find, and then there's the hassle of finding drivers for it.

It's seriously much less trouble just buying a new printer.
 
Just out of curiousity, when you feed the paper into the printer, are they all attached to each other with detachable holes on both sides?
 
Those old dot-matrix printers last forever and cost nothing to maintain, wish I still had mine for text. Notice the banks still use theirs.

It pisses me off that we have to throw everything out even though it works perfectly well.
 
Gentlemen, the original poster said this was from an old MACINTOSH. Mac printers were serial, not parallel.

Yes, there is a device, but no, did did not work worth crap. Driver issues.

For under $100 you can get a new decent inkjet. If you really want to help a student, buy a cheap laser.
 
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