Re: Parallel to USB -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: Parallel to USB
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:43:04 -0500
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On 7/8/2014 7:54 PM, Jerry Adams wrote:

And that may be the rub, John. This printer is so bloody old; at
least 10 years. But it was a loaner (they had no use for it,
obviously) so my only investment was for toner and fusers

I'm not 100% sure about this ... but I think there are actually TWO drivers involved in hooking up a printer.

There's the driver for the printer itself, which _should_ be connection independent.

There's also the driver for the connection, which should be printer independent.

If you can get a driver for the printer, that works over a normal parallel port, then hooking it up to a USB adapter (which would use its own driver to connect), should work fine.

david

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