Belkin� Printer Patcher was a utility released by Belkin and developed
by e-TEK Labs, Inc. which was designed to adapt drivers for serial-
connection Belkin printers to full USB compatibility. It was released
after the original iMac G3 reached the market and was designed to aid
users in the transition to USB peripherals.
Opening the app presents a "Patch" menubar item with the options to
patch the HP Series 600, HP Series 800, or Apple StyleWriter 4000
printer drivers, or to select a separate printer driver to patch.
Hope this is helpful to anyone with a period-appropriate printer still
lying around who wants to use it with their classic Macs.
DL #1: The installer file from the CD.
DL #2: The utility itself, contained in a StuffIt file (I uploaded
this first, but thought it would be better to include the installer
itself too).
DL #3: OS X driver (compiled as universal from sources at
<
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ubsa-osx/>. Only tested with 10.5,
but it may work with 10.4 and 10.3 as well)
Compatibility
Architecture: PPC x86 (Intel:Mac)