[ale] USB to parallel port for a printer

[Charles Shapiro]

Can you get a parallel port card any more?

-- CHS


On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> Never had luck with them. They frequently don't work b/c they gobble
> characters out of the print job.
>
> And the problems haven't been Linux-specific, either.
>
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> On Jun 15, 2011 8:57 AM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I recent;y got a new desktop box, (happen twice every decade), and it
>> naturally has no parallel port, and my old HP DeskJet812c can't
>> connect
>> directly.
>>
>> So I bought a cheap USB-to-parallel cable.
>>
>> But it does not seem to be successful - the test page print job does
>> not progress.
>>
>> So my question is - has anyone used the cheap USB:Parallel cables
>> successfully before? Or will I need to buy the $40 one? Or worse
>> yet,
>> need to buy a new printer?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>>
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>> Pete Hardie
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