Comments on: USB to Printer input?

By: Firefly

Firefly — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:14:13 +0000

Try this
http://www.cooldrives.com/software-dongle-lpt-pcmcia.html

By: jlk

jlk — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:39:08 +0000

http://www.keyspan.com... We had to connect an HP printer that used to go to a laptop that had a printer port. We had to replace the laptop with a “new” one that did not have a printer port :|. We found an adapter at circuit city. It is made by keyspan. Hope this helps. I know it wasn’t super expensive or we probably wouldn’t have bought it

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:29:04 +0000

As has been said, it will likely not work, as the dongles use hardware interrupts going back to the old “COM1″ “LPT” days.

By: Hoover

Hoover — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:53:26 +0000

Darn dang dingle dongles

By: Suze

Suze — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:49:36 +0000

OK - I think I found one here. However, as mentioned above, even having the cable I don’t know if it will work with the dongle. We did consider trying to get a new USB dongle, but unfortunately the software is a very specific embroidery program, hence nitch market, hence very expensive for a new and/or additional dongle. Stooopid dongles!

By: Slider

Slider — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:06:02 +0000

Your best bet is to get a replacement dongle from the software manufacture if available. I’ve still got a parallel dongle for my Lightwave 3D. I know that NewTek offers a replacement USB dongle for $30 or for free if you have them send it in conjunction with a software upgrade.

By: sdf

sdf — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:37:50 +0000

there’s a usb to din25 adapter available at reichelt.de (just type USB PARALLEL into the search box, first result). it’s 16 euro. should be available in the us, too somewhere. don’t know if dongles work, tho.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:40:25 +0000

I used to have one - I can’t remember the name of the manufacturer, but it was specifically designed for the old Iomega zip drives - I might still have it lying around, if so I’ll let you know, but if it was for those Iomega drives, surely there are some floating around somewhere - if I can find mine you are more than welcome to have it, actually….

By: Les

Les — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:54:24 +0000

I wouldn’t necessarily expect any adaptor to work with a dongle. Those things are generally designed to talk to hardware in quite specific ways. If the software developer is still around, can you ask them if they can supply a USB dongle to replace the parallel port one? I’ve seen some applications that do just that…

By: Kafkaesquí

Kafkaesquí — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:43:14 +0000

Belkin has a USB-serial adapter box that comes with an optional 25-pin cable. I dug up a link.