In , on 01/23/05 
   at 12:33 AM, Davey Brain  typed:

>So it seems the choice is to get a printer with a parallel port (I am 
>using an HP 895Cse with both) or to install a USB card. Cards are pretty 
>cheap. I even have a brand-new USB 1.1 card I've never opened. I bought 
>it for a few bucks a while back at a computer show. USB 2.0 cards are 
>pretty cheap also. Just do a search on them.

A 3rd option would be to get a Jetdirect or  equivalent network to
parallel port adapter.

Here we have one USB only printer on a networked machine; I can print to
it from other systems on the LAN using LPRMON (and LPD on the machine with
the printer).
 
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