On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:51:28PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
I would like to be able to just plug in the printer on
my USB port & print; I don't have any other reliable way of getting
data into the printer (no cd-burner, mac's have no disk drives).
Macs have disk drives. Zip drives, floppy drives, magneto-optical drives,
you name it, you can hook it to a Mac. By default, maybe not, but many do.
Both of my Macintosh towers came with internal Zip drives. You can get a
USB floppy for *cheap*.
I imagine your laptop has ethernet. I can't imagine a Mac that can run OS
X that *doesn't*.
Printing doesn't have to be perfect, I just have to be able to read
the text... is there a package that can probe for printer info & set
up a new printer e.g. from CUPS or some other print queue manager?
Ah, you run CUPS. As long as the Mac is running OS X 10.3.something, tell
the Mac to share its printer(s). Your copy of CUPS on your laptop will
pick up the shared printers from the Mac.