Digital BW, The Print

I believe that USB standard limits cord length to 6 ft in length (that's
probably where Epson gets their figure from...its like scsi cords...that
were supposed to be kept to 6ft lengths)...of course that doesn't mean that
you won't find non-standard cords...like you apparently already have.  I use
a 6ft cord that then goes to a hub with 4 different 6 ft cords going to
printers and that's ok...but its not a continuous cord...just like we would
chain scsi devices. I know that one advantage of firewire over USB is the
longer possible (15 ft) cord length.  I'd suggest using a hub and trying to
move your equipment a little closer or maybe look into USB to ethernet
adapters...but I don't have any experience using these with printers.  I do
use a parallel to ethernet print server for my 7000 which is a considerable
distance from my workstation...but these are expensive and I'm not sure how
you would use one with the conventional epson driver (I've hear of someone
doing it with a PC...but not sure about a mac), I use that machine with a
3rd party RIP that supports ethernet.

Robert

On 8/14/02 8:58 AM, "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@...> wrote:

> I have a 10 foot cord, and haven't experienced any problems that I know about.
> 
> Does it say what kind of printing problems?
> 
> Jerry
> 
> MARK MAIO wrote:
>> 
>> I am setting up my Epson 1280 and for reasons too long to go into, it
>> has to be about 15 feet from my Mac G3. My Epson instructions caution
>> against having a USB cable longer than 6 1/2 feet, as it might cause
>> printing problems. Any thoughts or experience with this?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>> Mark Maio
>> 
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