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I've been using a Brother HL-1440 laser printer with my eMac without problems for years, but last night a bookcase fell against the back of the printer, damaging the jack where the USB cable from the eMac comes in. Rather than repairing the damaged jack, I wanted to connect the printer through its parallel jack. All the USB-to-parallel cables I found (including this one), however, say they are for "PC only" and I could not find any that even claimed to work with a Mac. I decided to give this one a try, and much to my delight, it couldn't have been easier to install and it works flawlessly. I just connected it, and it started working immediately (I didn't need to load any drivers or anything). My eMac is running Mac OS X (10.3.9).