Carol Stein wrote: > > ...... my workhorse b&w laser printer is the old HP LJ4, which only has a parallel port (but my media costs are only about 3 cents/page, for as long as I can continue to find cartridges on eBay). Will I have to buy a new printer, since these machines (and their extensions/cradles) probably won't have a parallel port? > > Cheers -- > Carol > Carol, within a year you will find that there will be several vendors (most of which you've never heard of) selling little dongles that adapt BlueTooth to a parallel port for your old printer, plus every other "legacy" interface still used in abundance. Expect pricing to be around U$20- or even lower. For a hint of how cheap BlueTooth is going to be, look at: http://www.dlink.com/products/usb/dbt120/ This USB to BlueTooth adapter is selling for U$26- in single quantities ... or it was last week. Now they have another version with an Apple label on it that sells on Apple's web site for U$49- ... did someone decide that they could gouge for this until competitors appear? (its at the top of this page: http://www.dlink.com/products/DigitalHome/Wireless/11b/11bWireless.htm#usbBluetooth the "buy now" link takes you to: http://www.dlink.com/products/usb/dwb120m/ but the "Click here to Purchase" button goes to Apple's web site: http://www.apple.com/bluetooth/ ............. I wonder how much Apple paid them to pull the generic/PC version and only make the Apple version available? (they wouldn't really do that, would they? :) ... or maybe Apple just bought up all their stock and jacked the price to gouge the apple users (like they've always done). Brian A.P.P.L.E. : Arrogance Produces Profit-Less Enterprise! -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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