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AG-2
Assembly Guide
750 Naples Street • San Francisco, CA 94112 • (415) 584-6360 • http://www.pumpkininc.com
created by Andrew E. Kalman on Aug 19, 2000 updated on Feb 21, 2006
All trademarks mentioned herein are properties of their respective companies.
Printing to a Mac-only HP
DeskWriter
®
from a Windows
®
PC
®
Introduction
Got a "Mac-only" HP DeskWriter inkjet printer gathering dust?
Want to connect it to a PC and print to it from Windows? Then this
Application Guide is for you!
Hewlett-Packard
®
made two very similar series of desktop inkjet
printers – the DeskJet
®
series for Windows / PCs, and the
DeskWriter series for Apple
®
Macintosh
®
computers. The
DeskWriter line has been discontinued in favor of the current
DeskJet line, now that Macs use USB as their preferred means of
connecting serial devices.
This Application Guide explains how to print from a PC running
Windows 98 or Windows XP to an HP DeskWriter 660C inkjet
printer that has only a mini-DIN-8 connector – a decidedly
nonstandard configuration that is not supported by HP. An unused
serial port (DB-9 or DB-25) is required to connect the PC to the
DeskWriter 660C.
Cabling
DeskWriters with mini-DIN-8 (8-pin) connectors are normally
connected to a Macintosh computer via a Macintosh serial printer
cable with male mini-DIN-8 connectors on each end. Since these
cables are not used in the PC world, a cable must be acquired or
made to connect a DeskWriter to a PC's serial port.
A somewhat similar, widely-available and well-documented cable
provides a good place to start – the Mac modem cable is a min-
DIN-8-to-DB-25 cable that facilitates connecting a Mac modem to
a conventional (i.e. PC) RS-232 serial port. This is a straight-
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AG-2 Assembly Guide 750 Naples Street • San Francisco, CA 94112 • (415) 584-6360 • http://www.pumpkininc.com created by Andrew E. K

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Assembly Guide 10 AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® Figure 12: Naming the Printer Click on Next. Decide whether you

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Assembly Guide AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® 11 Figure 14: Avoiding the Test Page for Now Click on Next. The Ad

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Assembly Guide 12 AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® Figure 16: Printer after Successful Installation Serial Port Se

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Assembly Guide AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® 13 Figure 18: Avoiding the Test Page for Now Click on OK. The prin

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Assembly Guide 14 AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® Printing Test Pages In Windows XP, you may receive an error mess

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Assembly Guide AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® 15 "Thanks for explaining the cable connections in more detai

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Assembly Guide 2 AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® though-style cable. The pinout can be found by opening the PICT r

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Assembly Guide AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® 3 DB-9 connector and hood, available at many electronics stores for

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Assembly Guide 4 AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® More Advice on Cabling Assuming you already have a Mac modem cabl

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Assembly Guide AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® 5 4.00, using hpdskjtb.drv, will provide color and B&W output t

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Assembly Guide 6 AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® Figure 5: DeskJet 640C Printer Driver Installed Now change the p

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Assembly Guide AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® 7 Serial Port Settings The DeskWriter series communicates at 57,600

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Assembly Guide 8 AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® Under Start → Printers and Faxes, chose Add a printer to launch

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Assembly Guide AG-2 Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® 9 Figure 10: Choosing the Serial Port Click on Next. Under Manufac

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