Donate SIGN UP

parallel port.

Avatar Image
RAS | 16:05 Fri 19th May 2006 | Technology
6 Answers

A friend if mine has a failing printer. Her PC does not have USB ports. I am advised that you can no longer buy printers with parallel ports. Is there any way you can connect a USB printer to her PC


Thankst

Gravatar

Answers

1 to 6 of 6rss feed

Best Answer

No best answer has yet been selected by RAS. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.

For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.

If the PC is so old that it does not have USB, I would be tempted to replace it!


Failing that, I would suspect that the best option would be to buy a second-hand printer with a parallel port input (should be peanuts!).

Google for 'usb to parallel port adaptors' and you'll get a few sites. Kelkoo lists a few adaptors.

Another alternative would be to install a usb card into the computer it only takes a min and is very cheap and easy to do. PC World have a stock of usb 1.1 cards that would do the trick.


Ray


You can still buy printers with parallel ports but not cheap home use ones these days, I would suggest that the best answer is to go with DiggerDo's suggestion and fit a USB card to the PC, this will also be useful if you want to connect a pen drive or a camera etc...
Note though that if it's old enough to not have USB ports, it may be running an operating system that doesn't support USB.

winXP, win2000 and winME all support USB. NT4 and below does not. 98SE does, but I don't think 95 does.
Question Author

Thank you all for your help.


1 to 6 of 6rss feed

Do you know the answer?

parallel port.

Answer Question >>