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We have mac's printing to Jetdirect boxes. It depends on the printer more than the jet direct box. You need a driver for the mac for the model of the printer and the mac needs newer drivers to support tcp/ip via LPR depending on what you are working on.
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We have mac's printing to Jetdirect boxes. It depends on the printer more than the jet direct box. You need a driver for the mac for the model of the printer and the mac needs newer drivers to support tcp/ip via LPR depending on what you are working on.

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Maybe it works, but it is a rather poor solution. JetDirect boxes are very primitive, cannot buffer correctly and your Mac is likely to crash every so often (personal experience using a MacOS 8.6 WallStreet PowerBook, with the latest available driver), because there is nearly no handshaking between the Mac and the printer using LPR.<br />
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Good luck...
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Maybe it works, but it is a rather poor solution. JetDirect boxes are very primitive, cannot buffer correctly and your Mac is likely to crash every so often (personal experience using a MacOS 8.6 WallStreet PowerBook, with the latest available driver), because there is nearly no handshaking between the Mac and the printer using LPR.

Good luck...

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i have also seen &quot;fresh&quot; jetdirect boxes with old firmware. I had one misbahving that was four firmware versions old but behaved muchnicer when updated. Of course the updates can only delivered from a pc thanks to HP's choices.
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i have also seen "fresh" jetdirect boxes with old firmware. I had one misbahving that was four firmware versions old but behaved muchnicer when updated. Of course the updates can only delivered from a pc thanks to HP's choices.

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I have a peer to peer network with all pc's running windows 98 except one that is a mac. &nbsp;I dont know what version but it is somewhat new. &nbsp;Can I connect the mac to the ethernet and print to the tcp/ip jet direct?
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I have a peer to peer network with all pc's running windows 98 except one that is a mac.  I dont know what version but it is somewhat new.  Can I connect the mac to the ethernet and print to the tcp/ip jet direct?

Mac printing to a Jet direct box

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