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Printing from 49g+ Message #1 Posted by Jeff Lastofka on 13 Dec 2003, 1:46 p.m. I just looked through the printed manual and pdf files for information on printing from the 49g+ through the USB port. I found nothing. Do you just plug a USB cable from calculator to printer and expect it to work? If I had the right style cable here I'd try it, but before I run out and buy one, I thought I'd ask. I have printed to my old HP thermal printer with success. I know I'd have to set the printer flag from I/R to wire. Maybe that's all there is to it.....

Re: Printing from 49g+ Message #2 Posted by James M. Prange on 13 Dec 2003, 2:50 p.m., in response to message #1 by Jeff Lastofka Well, maybe. But the USB printers that I know about don't accept plain text; they rely on a driver to generate graphics to send to the printer, so I rather doubt it. See my response to your previous question to get a decompiled file to the PC, edit out the first 13 characters, and print it from the PC. Regards, James Edited: 13 Dec 2003, 2:52 p.m.

Re: Printing from 49g+ Message #3 Posted by James M. Prange on 13 Dec 2003, 3:02 p.m., in response to message #2 by James M. Prange PS: On second thought, change that "maybe" to a definite "no". Both the 49g+ and a USB printer would be "USB client devices", and therefore can't communicate with each other. You need a USB host to act as the go-between. Regards, James

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