<p>Never had luck with them. They frequently don't work b/c they gobble characters out of the print job.</p>
<p>And the problems haven't been Linux-specific, either.</p>
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Sent from my phone... a G2 running CM7 nightlies!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 15, 2011 8:57 AM, "Pete Hardie" <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> All,<br>> <br>> I recent;y got a new desktop box, (happen twice every decade), and it<br>
> naturally has no parallel port, and my old HP DeskJet812c can't<br>> connect<br>> directly.<br>> <br>> So I bought a cheap USB-to-parallel cable.<br>> <br>> But it does not seem to be successful - the test page print job does<br>
> not progress.<br>> <br>> So my question is - has anyone used the cheap USB:Parallel cables<br>> successfully before? Or will I need to buy the $40 one? Or worse<br>> yet,<br>> need to buy a new printer?<br>
> <br>> thanks,<br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Pete Hardie<br>> --------<br>> Better Living Through Bitmaps<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Ale mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br>
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