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From: Sniper on 10 May 2006 12:44 I have a HP scanner made around 1999 which uses a parallel connector. It is a good scanner and i would like to use it with my new computer which only has USB connectors. Does anyone know if it is possible to get a parallel to USB cable? - and if so do they work ok?. Thanks
From: Ken Weitzel on 10 May 2006 13:31 Sniper wrote: > I have a HP scanner made around 1999 which uses a parallel > connector. It is a good scanner and i would like to use it with my new > computer which only has USB connectors. Does anyone know if it is > possible to get a parallel to USB cable? - and if so do they work ok?. > > Thanks Hi... Never ever seen a machine without a "parallel connector" (printer) Ken
From: Sniper on 10 May 2006 14:27 Ken Weitzel wrote: > Sniper wrote: > > I have a HP scanner made around 1999 which uses a parallel > > connector. It is a good scanner and i would like to use it with my new > > computer which only has USB connectors. Does anyone know if it is > > possible to get a parallel to USB cable? - and if so do they work ok?. > > > > Thanks > > Hi... > > Never ever seen a machine without a "parallel connector" (printer) > > Ken I dont understand what you mean?. My scanner has the parallel port and I need to connect it to my new computer which has no parallel port - only USB. Hence I am looking for a cable which has a Parallel port at one end and USB at the other.
From: Scott W on 10 May 2006 14:51 Sniper wrote: > Ken Weitzel wrote: > > > Sniper wrote: > > > I have a HP scanner made around 1999 which uses a parallel > > > connector. It is a good scanner and i would like to use it with my new > > > computer which only has USB connectors. Does anyone know if it is > > > possible to get a parallel to USB cable? - and if so do they work ok?. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Hi... > > > > Never ever seen a machine without a "parallel connector" (printer) > > > > Ken > > I dont understand what you mean?. My scanner has the parallel > port and I need to connect it to my new computer which has no parallel > port - only USB. Hence I am looking for a cable which has a Parallel > port at one end and USB at the other. There are lots of them out there but depending on what driver you have for you scanner you might have a hard time getting it to work on a newer operating system. http://www.usbgear.com/USB-Printer-Adapters.html http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/category_slc.asp?CatId=471 Scott
From: Dances With Crows on 10 May 2006 14:53
On Wed, 10 May 2006 17:31:56 GMT, Ken Weitzel staggered into the Black Sun and said: > Sniper wrote: >> I have an HP scanner made around 1999 which uses a parallel >> connector. It is a good scanner It'd better be, considering how slow parports are compared to everything else. >> and I would like to use it with my new computer which only has USB >> connectors. Does anyone know if it is possible to get a parallel to >> USB cable? I've seen reports of USB<->parport adapters working properly in comp.os.linux.hardware. Thing is, the people using those adapters weren't using 'Doze, and they were driving parport printers, not parport scanners. This may or may not work, depending on whether the software you're using needs to talk directly to the parport's I/O ports or can be fooled by software into talking to an emulation of the parport's I/O ports. Note that most USB<->parport adapters have a physical switch that can be placed in 2 positions. Try your scanner with that switch in both positions. > [I've] never ever seen a machine without a "parallel connector". Macs have never had 25-pin parports, eh?[0] Also, the "Legacy-Free x86 Initiative" was announced a few years ago, and its goal is to get rid of 9-pin serial, parallel, PS/2, and every other port you find on an x86 except for USB, Firewire, VGA/DVI, audio[1], and Ethernet. This is being done so that motherboard manufacturers can save money, but they're selling it as a way to reduce new user confusion. Interesting that some manufacturers have finally started to implement this. [0] A number of older Macs had 25-pin SCSI ports that had the same DB-25 connector spec as the x86 25-pin parport. Since SCSI pins do different things and take different voltages, this caused a few people to let the Magic Smoke out of their peripherals back then. [1] Unless they want to switch to USB audio, which may be the case. -- Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see We're standing there pounding a dead parrot on the counter, and the management response is to frantically swap in new counters to see if that fixes the problem. --Peter Gutmann, ASR 6/18/1998 |