HP DeskJet 340 Help needed

[Matt Broughton]

I'm trying to get a DeskJet 340 portable printer to work in Mac OS X
using a Keyspan Twin Serial Adapter. The printer is using the Macintosh
cable as described on the HP site
<http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=b
pm06005>.

This document seems to agree with the User's Guide as to the port
capabilities. The User's Guide shows the interface as:
I/O Interface
Centronics port with parallel, serial and serial infrared capability
IrDA-compliant (serial enabled when used with Mac
Adapter cable;Š

The printer is not working when using the standard DeskJet serial
settings of baud=57600, parity=none, bits=8, flow control=RTS/CTS. It
also does not work with the baud rate of 19200 which is the other
standard suggestion for Linux on PPC computers.

Any help or insight is greatly appreciated.

 

[Matt Broughton]

I'm trying to get a DeskJet 340 portable printer to work in Mac OS X
using a Keyspan Twin Serial Adapter. The printer is using the Macintosh
cable as described on the HP site
<http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&cc=us&docname=b
pm06005>.

This document seems to agree with the User's Guide as to the port
capabilities. The User's Guide shows the interface as:
I/O Interface
Centronics port with parallel, serial and serial infrared capability
IrDA-compliant (serial enabled when used with Mac
Adapter cable;Š

The printer is not working when using the standard DeskJet serial
settings of baud=57600, parity=none, bits=8, flow control=RTS/CTS. It
also does not work with the baud rate of 19200 which is the other
standard suggestion for Linux on PPC computers.

Any help or insight is greatly appreciated.

Problem solved. The "Printer Features" was set to normal and the
printer couldn't find the color cartridge as a black cartridge was
installed. Once printing was set to greyscale, the printer came to life
with the standard serial port settings.

 

[Julian]

Problem solved. The "Printer Features" was set to normal and the
printer couldn't find the color cartridge as a black cartridge was
installed. Once printing was set to greyscale, the printer came to life
with the standard serial port settings.

Thanks Matt. You solved my problem!