Olympus printer
Sep 20, 2021 15:18:21 #
I have a few well-stored Olympus Camedia Printers, Model P-300U and the A4 size one.
It's well-dated, I even have to buy a USB to Parallel printer adapter cable, since there is no more support from Olympus, I installed the driver from the CD supplied, but the printer doesn't show up at all. I have window 10.
Wondering if anybody is still using them? Any advice will be appreciated.
It's well-dated, I even have to buy a USB to Parallel printer adapter cable, since there is no more support from Olympus, I installed the driver from the CD supplied, but the printer doesn't show up at all. I have window 10.
Wondering if anybody is still using them? Any advice will be appreciated.
Sep 20, 2021 15:59:30 #
I think you can not buy the ribbons and paper any more so it's basically useless. If you can get the supplies then you need to run Windows XP or so to get it to work. For sure if you run Windows 95/98.
Sep 21, 2021 08:21:23 #
Donbender
Loc: Bridgeport,CT; Mountain City, TN
pedroho wrote:
I have a few well-stored Olympus Camedia Printers, Model P-300U and the A4 size one.
It's well-dated, I even have to buy a USB to Parallel printer adapter cable, since there is no more support from Olympus, I installed the driver from the CD supplied, but the printer doesn't show up at all. I have window 10.
Wondering if anybody is still using them? Any advice will be appreciated.
It's well-dated, I even have to buy a USB to Parallel printer adapter cable, since there is no more support from Olympus, I installed the driver from the CD supplied, but the printer doesn't show up at all. I have window 10.
Wondering if anybody is still using them? Any advice will be appreciated.
I found worldclassinks still has some printers and the ribbon / paper packs.
I have an Epson parallel to USB that has worked for any parallel printer I have connected, same for a Belkin USB parallel. I used them with Win 7 and earlier os, currently I use openSUSE Tumbleweed that has cups and ghostscript drivers. Linux has those drivers for printers, even the option of a virtual windows you can run your Olympus driver in, called WINE.
Another option is a small virtual or live CD operating system that fits on a CD and is something you can start the computer from for testing, puppy Linux has live CD images that are kept up to date for features.
Ken
Sep 21, 2021 11:33:03 #
pedroho wrote:
I have a few well-stored Olympus Camedia Printers, Model P-300U and the A4 size one.
It's well-dated, I even have to buy a USB to Parallel printer adapter cable, since there is no more support from Olympus, I installed the driver from the CD supplied, but the printer doesn't show up at all. I have window 10.
Wondering if anybody is still using them? Any advice will be appreciated.
It's well-dated, I even have to buy a USB to Parallel printer adapter cable, since there is no more support from Olympus, I installed the driver from the CD supplied, but the printer doesn't show up at all. I have window 10.
Wondering if anybody is still using them? Any advice will be appreciated.
Useless old technology… no supplies and no support. Recycle…
Sep 21, 2021 12:28:55 #
Bigmike1
Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.
You're probably screwed blue and tattooed, as they used to say in the army. Everything changes just so you can no longer use the old equipment and have to buy new.
Sep 21, 2021 12:44:19 #
Bigmike1 wrote:
You're probably screwed blue and tattooed, as they used to say in the army. Everything changes just so you can no longer use the old equipment and have to buy new.
It's a fact of life these days. Many of us grew up buying expensive tools we thought we could use for life. These days, the pace of innovation makes it difficult to justify the cost of a tool that would be built well enough to last for life, let alone outlast the current use paradigm.
After using computers for over 35 years, and cameras and audio for most of my life, I am used to replacing the system and/or switching paradigms about every five to seven years. From my life:
1960 AM radio and phonograph
1965 AM radio and phonograph and reel-to-reel tape
1970 AM radio and phonograph and 8-track tape
1975 AM/FM radio and phonograph and cassette tape
1985 AM/FM radio and phonograph and cassette tape and CD player
2005 AM/FM radio and iTunes, Spotify, YouTube on iPhone and Mac
1968 to 2005 film developing, printing, slide projection
2000 to 2007 film developing, digital scanning, digital printing, digital projection, digital CD/DVD
2005 to 2012 digital capture, digital printing, digital projection, digital CD/DVD
2012 to present digital capture, online sharing, online PDF distribution, online digital audio and video...
Sep 21, 2021 13:10:33 #
Donbender
Loc: Bridgeport,CT; Mountain City, TN
Portable dye-sublimation photo printer in 4x6inch/10x15cm/A6 photo size. 300 dpi, full 24-bit color depth (256 levels per CMY color component), full-bleed (border-less). Produces laboratory-like photos. Does not print on normal paper. Parallel port connection. A driver for this printer was developed by the Gimp-Print project, in version 5. It is available for Mac os after 10.1, Linux, plus most versions of Windows.
Since pedroho has the 2 sizes of printers (4x6 and a4), supplies are available, and drivers are available, there seems to be no need to replace them with new pricey wet dye sublimation printers. Darktable software has good editing and printing capabilities as well.
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Since pedroho has the 2 sizes of printers (4x6 and a4), supplies are available, and drivers are available, there seems to be no need to replace them with new pricey wet dye sublimation printers. Darktable software has good editing and printing capabilities as well.
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