Connecting an SCSI printer to a G5

I'm trying to hook up an old HP printer with a 25-Pin (male) SCSI cable to a PowerMac G5. Any ideas how to do this? I've seen 25-Pin (female) to 50-Pin (male) adapters that I think will hook up to and a 50-Pin (male) SCSI to USB2 cable that can go into the G5. Does this sound right?

Be careful. SCSI 25 pin and Parallel 25 pin look exactly alike! The primary difference is that SCSI usually has a switch to go between 0 and 6, or 0 and 12 for ID switches. Printers normally were PC Parallel back in the old day of printer technologies, whereas scanners were more often SCSI. Does your printer owners manual say it is SCSI?
Secondly, the printer needs Mac OS X compatible drivers to work at all with the PowerMac G5, since it won't boot into Mac OS 9, and most Mac OS 9 printer drivers don't work in Mac OS X. See my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/printersx.html
And find a printer that works with your Mac OS X software if you can't find your own printer as working with it.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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Thanks for the post.
Please also let us know the exact model of this HP printer.
If possible, please reproduce this issue on the Windows7 client and collect the relevant information for further research.
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Hello Mattern Adjei,
Are all these computer Windows 7?
If my understanding is right, now some computers in the office can use the printer and some can’t.
Do all computers need to type username and password when you access network folder?
Please check have you made any changes before this issue.
Please take a look at the following article about printer troubleshooting.
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1. Check network connection, try to ping the IP address of the printer
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see the tail end of my thread here, it sounds a LOT like your problems and my own are similar:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/7ab3e2a9-832c-4504-8d97-c7199bcc207e
Hello,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-US;2388142
Might be the right hotfix!
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Additional details:
Laptop: AMD, Vista home prem 64bit
Desktop: Intel, XP Home Pro 32bit (x86)
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The following worked for me, even allowing me to manually select the driver
Alternative method 1. 1. Click on the Windows icon>>Start Search>>Type printers and press enter. 2. Click on 'Add Printer'. 3. Click on 'Add a local printer'. 4. Click on 'Create a new port:'. 5. Do not change the 'Type of port:'. By default it is selected as 'Local Port'. Let it remain the same. 6. Click on 'Next'. 7. In the small 'Port name:' window, type the following under 'Enter a port name:'
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  \\computer name\printer name
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\\John\HPprinter
8. Click on OK. 9. Click on Next and complete the Wizard. (It will now install the printer and driver) I used the 7400 series driver for my 7550 but it works.10. Try to print a Windows test page and check the printer functionality. 1 Click on the Start icon on your Desktop.2.Select Control Panel.3.Double click on the Printer icon.4.Select and Right click on HP Photosmart 7550 Printer series icon.5.Click on Properties.6.In the Properties Windows click on Print Test Page Tab it will start printing a Windows Test Page
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