Just in case that anyone else has this problem, or more likely, that I need to find this again, I finally have printing from the mac to our 1999 laser printer via a Sabrent usb to parallel port printer cable which I bought from tigerdirect.ca. Before I couldn't get it to work at all. I figured that it had been worth the 12 $ for the experiment though. Tonight I decided to look again, and behold, I found a 9 year old post explaining exactly what I needed to do. I just had to go to the Gutenprint project and install the "usbtb" module.
My only explanation for why Laura's printer doesn't need ink is that it's a TARDIS and has a supertanker of printer ink inside - the future's currency standard after gold became easy to manufacture.
Posted by jim at August 15, 2010 10:14 PM