Hello JEAN.

26 Oct 04 10:08, you wrote to ANDY BALL:

 JP>         Hello Andy, we were saying !

 AB>> I've seen USB to Mini-DIN 8 serialadaptors for sale.  Although
 AB>> these were probably developed to let people use
 AB>> their existing Mac serial port devices with Macs that are
 AB>> USB-only, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that one of
 AB>> those along with an off-the-shelf Mac printer cable would let a
 AB>> PC drive a Mac printer.

 JP>         That was a very nice post, Andy. No M*c here. But I do use an
 JP>  adapter from USB to DIN for my mouse on a Thinkpad. The mouse is USB
 JP>  into the DIN on the Thinkpad. This way, I still have the two USB
 JP>  ports open for other devices, a printer and a card reader. The best
 JP>  of three worlds !  I have not tested if any other device, USB, could
 JP>  be connected this way. Sorry, yes I did. I connected the USB printer
 JP>  to that DIN socket and it did not work, I guess that it needs  a +5v
 JP>  current to work.

there's 5v on the mouse socket. the problem more likely is that the printer
isn't built with software that lets it communicate with a mouse socket,
while the mouse is. and/or that your operating system can't handle printers
attached to the mouse port.

FWIW USB is about 1000 times faster (bitrate) than the mouse port.

Jasen

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