[CentOS] USB->Parallel cable compatibility

Ljubomir Ljubojevic office at plnet.rs
Thu May 5 23:39:12 UTC 2011


Bill Campbell wrote:
> I have an installation where we're replacing a rather old Linux
> box with a new one that has no parallel ports.  The old box has
> two parallel ports going to Okidata printers.
> 
> The IOGEAR GUC1284B USB to Parallel Adapter cable looks like it
> might be a simple solution to this, but I would like to know that
> it works before getting a couple.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Bill

I would generally recomend agains USB to Paralell CABLEs. Better find 
nice Parallel PCI/PCIe card and enjoy.

Ljubomir



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