Solved: Usb To Parallel Printer For Mac
A better solution-if the USB to parallel cable doesn't work-is to add a parallel printer port to your computer. For a desktop, there are add-in cards with a parallel port. For a laptop, the options are more limited. If you're getting output on your printer but it's garbage, then everything is working but you have the wrong driver.
Find a driver that is compatible with your old printer. HP 1100 is listed every time I've installed it in the past (I've owned mine for 15 years-amazing long lasting printer). Windows 7 has the driver built in.
Usb To Parallel Printer Driver
One of our electrical engineers has been using a small inkjet printer in the past to connect to some of our molding machines via parallel port and print out diagnostic reports etc.
Solved Usb To Parallel Printer For Mac Os X
Hi, Incidentally, I recently purchased a new DB25 to USB adapter from A.z.n, with Windows7 compatibility. I made sure the product is 'certified' with Win7, and selected based on the user evaluations who had the same configuration as mine (fortunately HP LJ1100 is a farily common product!) but there are certainly other products around. It works, although it needs some special startup process: PC powered on, first wire the USB adapter & DB25 parallel port, then power the printer. Similarly setup process can be tweaky to ensure the virtual usb driver print port is installed properly.
Avoid USB extensions by all means I hope I won't go back to square one when upgrading to Windows10 soon.:-s.
- The way to get a programme designed to connect/print via a com port (and usually to a parallel port printer) is effectively to map the usb printer to a com port (typically Lpt1) and then use a command: 'net use' which allows one to access that Lpt via a share option.
- Oct 04, 2010 My printer is a Kodak 5100 (USB connected). It works fine on the Mac side of things. In Windows XP, all I can print is the first (or sometimes just the last) page of a document in any program I use (Word 2003, WordPerfect X3), even when 'print full document' is chosen.