On 12/11/07, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/11/07, M. Adam Davis <stienman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/10/07, wouter van ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
> > > But I am sceptical. My printer has an USB printer driver, which controls
> > > many aspects of the rpinter (for instance, print in color or in black
> > > and white). This converter claims 'no drivers needed', but then how do I
> > > control such aspects of my printer?
>
> I am also highly sceptical about the claims.
>
> > You don't.
> >
> > The further implication is that if you really do not have a USB port
> > on the computer (or an OS that doesn't support USB) , then you only
> > need to print text, or some high level print language such as
> > postscript or PCL.
> >
> > I imagine that this device only supports a few features of the USB
> > printer device type, mainly a data channel and paper out signal.   I
> > doubt that it supports any other methods, especially two way
> > communications such as EPP, etc.
> >
>
> Then I found this.
> http://www.epapersigncanada.ca/Products_WORD.htm
> It only support SPP and USB 1.1.
>
> And it is strange that they mention the 2nd option. When the
> host USB port is available, why bother with this device?
>
> And a add-on PCI USB adapter is cheaper. So I think this
> does not make much sense for a PC.
>
> I then thought maybe this is useful for some embedded
> device (like an embedded PC-104 PC with DOS), but
> according to this page, it is not that easy either.
> http://www.epapersign.com/TroubleShooting.html

This looks better and claims to support ECP.
http://www.ak-nord.de/ak/product_info.php?products_id=5
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