[Discussion] USB to parallel cable observation

[rbklein at earthlink.net]

Leo,
I am planning to upgrade my computer after the holiday rush is over, and
since few motherboards have a parallel port anymore, I did some research
for this same situation.  I could only find mixed reviews of the
USB-Parallel printer cable, so I went for a Netgear PS101 print server
(less than $20 on ebay), plugged it into my router,  and installed SLPR. 
Once I figured out how to configure SLPR, everything is working great on
eCS 1.2R, Suse Linux 11.0, and Windows XP and 2000.  Now, I don't need
to worry about having a parallel port.

HTH
Ron

In <f8225575c4dbcb090dfc137702d62869.squirrel at www.possi.org>, on
12/24/08 
   at 10:08 AM, "Leo A. Martin" <leo at possi.org> said:



>[Attaching a parallel printer to an eCS 1.2R box with a USB to parallel
>cable]

>Well, I did get my Christmas letters to go in the cards printed on that
>one day. But when I tried to print another letter the next day for a
>card I forgot, the printer wouldn't. In the Printer Settings notebook
>Ports page, I right-clicked the USB port and found that my printer is
>regarded as "offline." I haven't been able to get it back online
>despite various combinations of on/offing the printer, attach/detaching
>the cable and rebooting with/without cable/printer attached and on/off.
>Suggestions? I guess I could give up and buy a PCI parallel port card.

>Leo

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