[G4] Connecting a printer

Fabian Fang ftfang at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 14:53:56 PDT 2013


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Manoah F. Adams <mhfadams at gmail.com> wrote:

I haven't tried a direct (not-through-hub) printer connection, but I recall
> that computer-to-computer ethernet connections need to use a 'crossover'
> cable (Ethernet cable with the TX/RX pair crossed). Connecting to the
> printer directly might need such a cable as well.  They are not usually
> very easy to tell from the normal cables, and are rare, though.
>

Ethernet crossover cables are readily available from Amazon and numerous
other sources for as little as $2.

Fabian
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