Drivers for epson printer FX286e

I have an older dot matrix printer that was connected to my old windows computer. It print thing like a tax return that has a lot of pages. I got a USB to parallel converter cable so I could it to the Mac and print low quality pages. Howerver Epson says Mac is the reason it will not print and Apple wants me to pay for support since my one year extended contract is done

By switching from Parallel to USB, you're going to lose a lot of direct control over the printer - it would surprise me if this would actually work.  But the thing you'll need to research is how to control and drive the printer through the CUPS printing subsystem in OSX.  But you're hiding the real FX-286e behind the USB adapter... so again, I'm not really sure how that would work.

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