I therefore recommend this product unreservedly. Buy in monthly payments with Affirm on orders over 50. All I had to do then was configure CUPS to see this printer, which was easily achieved through the Printing configuration option in the Administration menu of Gnome.Įven now I can't get over how easy this was, I was expecting at least a few little difficulties, but it really couldn't have been easier. Monoprice USB to Parallel (CN36 Male / IEEE1284) Converter Cable - 6ft. I plugged the cable into a free USB port on my computer and plugged my printer's parallel cable into the other end straight away a printer port was created at /dev/usb/lp0. Now it was time to see whether my kernel (2.6.26 on Debian Lenny 5.01) would recognise this cable. This came as no surprise, indeed I really would have been surprised if there had been drivers for Linux. The package had the standard drivers for various flavours of Windows, but no drivers for Linux. When the package arrived two days later I found that it was a LogiLink USB to Parallel Cable, D-SUB 25pin. My HP LaserJet 1100, for example, has a Mini-Centronics interface. I went for the version with a female 25pin D-SUB on the end, as not all my printers have a standard Centronics interface. I decided to purchase the USB Parallel Printer Port Cable 25 pin female socket advertised on Amazon by Cablestar. Accept the 'License agreement' and click on 'Next'. Click here to download the latest version of the driver directly from the Seagull Scientific website.

Follow the steps below to install the Datamax-O'Neil Windows Printer driver and synchronize it with a USB to Parallel cable. I hope that it is of some help to others who are looking for a similar cable. Connect the printer using a USB to Parallel cable. Below is my brief review of the product that I found to work. I then decided to look on Amazon and just give one a go. After searching the internet for a review of a usb to parallel cable that works reliably with Linux, I pretty much drew a blank. The USB-Parallel Printer cable also provides try plug-and-play capability. USB interface provides up to 12Mbps data throughput, so printing is much faster compared when connected to standard parallel port. I have a number of older printers that I would like to connect to my modern machine, but have been unable to do so because my computer doesn't have a parallel interface. The IOCrest USB 2.0 to DB25 parallel printer cable adapter allows you to attach your computer to any parallel printer device through the USB port and get faster printing results.

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