I was under the impression that if the computer and printer couldn't
communicate at all that I needed a converter. The printer and computer do
communicate, so I thought it might be a serial printer. I have absolutely
no knowledge of printers :)

Well, the plug looks like...extremely hard to describe. But I think it was
a Centronics-type plug...

Josh Hope
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On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Joshua E Hope wrote:
> 
> > Apparently, it's not the baud rate that is making my printer print just
> > the letter 'o' over and over again. I tried all of the different baud
> > rates, and it does that all the time no matter what. Except under 57600 it
> > refused to print...
> > 
> > Any suggestions on anything else to change to fix this?
> 
> Wait, weren't we saying you need a serial to parallel converter? No baud
> rate is going to get around that!
> 
> Sorry.
> 
> What does the plug on the back of the printer look like?
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill
> 
>