[X Newbies] PAP on CUPS with Printer:LWSelect300 /serial printing

[Florin Alexander Neumann]

On Monday, Oct 27, 2003, at 21:27 Canada/Eastern, Cyril Blanc wrote:

> My PLW300 is not 10 year old I have bought it less than 5 year ago and 
> I am
> still on it¹s first tone cartridge.

Wasn't it discontinued in the mid-90s?

> Shame is on Apple not to provide upward
> compatibility of it¹s own printers !

Get real. Apple is not a charitable NGO, it's a business whose raison 
d'etre is to generate profit for its shareholders. Period. It cannot 
profitably support obsolete peripherals -- especially if you can 
replace them reasonably cheaply. You can buy an OS X-compatible printer 
-- with colour and higher resolution -- for less than EUR 80.

> If you visit :
> http://www.geethree.com/StealthPanther.html

And you will also notice that not only is the Stealth Serial Port USD 
49 -- not much less than a new printer -- but you also have to discard 
the internal modem to use it. Even if a printer driver did exist, I 
doubt that it would constitute an attractive proposition.

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