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Assembly Guide 
 
AG-2  Printing to a Mac-only HP DeskWriter® from a Windows® PC® 
 
 
DB-9 connector and hood, available at many electronics stores for 
a combined cost of around $10. 
 
Figure 2: Pinout for mini-DIN-8-to-DB-9 Serial Printer 
Cable 
You can connect the cable shown in Figure 2 directly between a 
PC's serial/COM port's DB-9 connector and a DeskWriter's mini-
DIN-8 connector. 
 
If you have an older PC with DB-25 connectors on one or more of 
its serial/COM ports, you'll need to make the cable shown in 
Figure 3:
 
Figure 3: Pinout for mini-DIN-8-to-DB-25 Serial Printer 
Cable 
Note
 The pinout on the side of the DB-25 connector in Figure 3 
is completely different from that of the DB-9 connector in Figure 
2. 
 
Caution
 The DB-9 and DB-25 serial/COM port connectors on 
PCs are male / pin / plug type, and mate with female / receptacle / 
socket type connectors found on serial cables. PC's also have 25-
pin female connectors – these are the parallel/LPT port connectors. 
Serial/COM and parallel/LPT ports are not interchangeable.