Post #2261984
2026-03-25 10:47 UTC
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@kalleboo@bitbang.social 2026-03-25 10:49
Congratulations to @danieltufvesson@mastodon.social and @mroach@ublog.mroach.com as the first ones to print to my ImageWriter through IRTalk over #GlobalTalk!
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@kalleboo@bitbang.social 2026-03-25 10:55
The Farallon AirDock is only advertised as being a way to connect up a PowerBook with infrared wirelessly, but reading the manual, it doesn’t actually need any drivers - just plugging it into the printer port it acts like a normal LocalTalk connection. The included software is just needed to act as a LocalTalk bridge, or if you want to use the modem port instead. That’s what gave me the courage to try to just plug it straight into the ImageWriter…
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@kalleboo@bitbang.social 2026-03-25 10:59
And yes, I’m using a USB-ADB Wombat to give the AirDock the extra 5V juice it typically pulls from your Mac’s ADB port to run itself. It’s actually connected with an ADB to little DC jack and I could have spent an extra 5 minutes digging through my bin of DC adaptors to make it prettier but this quicker…
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@kalleboo@bitbang.social 2026-03-25 11:45
It looks like Farallon later marketed a “AirDock Printer Adapter" which is just the exact same device but shipped with a 5V DC adapter instead of the ADB->DC cable, and they even sold the AC/DC adapter as an "upgrade kit”. They don't list the ImageWriter II on their compatibility list though... https://web.archive.org/web/19980524081602/http://www.farallon.com/product/infrared/airdockprint.html
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@kalleboo@bitbang.social 2026-03-25 15:39
The battery is still holding at 3/5 dots, will be interesting to see if the setup is still alive when I wake up in the morning!
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@billgoats@bitbang.social 2026-03-25 12:47
@kalleboo@bitbang.social Fantastic!
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@squelch41@oldbytes.space 2026-03-25 19:21
@kalleboo@bitbang.social so portable! Def one to take to a coffee shop 😂
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@CodingItWrong@oldbytes.space 2026-03-25 23:53
@kalleboo@bitbang.social I just actually lolled because WHY 😂🤣😂🤣