Firstly. A friend of mine has a Mac, couple years old, I think OS X or something like that (I don't know Macs). Anyway, she's trying to get a Lexmark Z11 printer to work with it. The printer has only a parallel port and the Mac has only USB ports, so I found her a USB-to-parallel cable and now the computer recognizes that the printer is there, but says it's not usable. So I looked for the printer driver online, and Lexmark has Mac-compatible drivers available for download for all its printers down to a Z12. Which, unfortunately, is not a Z11. Does this mean there's no way at all that that printer will work on that computer, or is there a way to fudge it somehow? Secondly, I have an Epson (I know, they suck). It won't print black-and-white because I'm out of color ink. Is there a way I can dummy it to make it think there's a color ink cartridge in there, or do I actually have to spend $9847690827019837509 on something I'm never going to use so that I can print out frigging essays and suchlike? Thanks.
Zac, on question one.. go ahead and try that driver anyway, there couldnt have been that many changes to the model from Z11 to Z12. At worst, it doesn't work....then just uninstall it. EDIT:: I just checked around, and the Z11 and the Z12 are almost exactly identical...the drivers for the Z12 will more than likely work for the Z11 on question 2... go into the properties for the Epson printer and set it to only print black and white...I havent tried it, but if it thinks it only needs black ink, then maybe it will ignore the empty color cartridge.
