USB to Parallel cable - will it work?

jherrick · Post by **jherrick** » Thu May 01, 2008 3:18 pm

qingz wrote:I think you can use a printer port PCI card for desktop or PC card for laptop.

As I said here http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/viewt ... lel+laptop I don't think you can get functionality with the printer port cards/cables. I think you would need a card or cable that emulates the parallel port with ECP or EPP capabilities. Those aren't cheap, and a new (to you) old laptop with a parallel port would cost you about the same, usually.
Jim

Ube_Astard · Post by **Ube_Astard** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:43 pm

jherrick wrote:
qingz wrote:I think you can use a printer port PCI card for desktop or PC card for laptop.
As I said here http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/viewt ... lel+laptop I don't think you can get functionality with the printer port cards/cables. I think you would need a card or cable that emulates the parallel port with ECP or EPP capabilities. Those aren't cheap, and a new (to you) old laptop with a parallel port would cost you about the same, usually.
Jim

Does that also go for the PCMCIA cards, or will something like this work?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0255115827

classicsat · Post by **classicsat** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:42 am

IMO, that would work, since CardBus is a sort of extension of the ISA bus in a computer, making anything on it a sort of hardware port.

Ube_Astard · Post by **Ube_Astard** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:52 am

Thanks for the response. Ive been waiting all day for that.