Old PC New Printer 1

bgreen39 · Mar 23, 2014

I have a 14 year old PC with only COM and parallel Printer ports. (No USB ports). Is it possible to connect a new printer to this old PC? I would need a DB25 parallel printer connector to USB adapter and then a driver that would install in the old PC to run the printer.

Any help is appreciated.

MikeHalloran · Mar 23, 2014

This should solve the hardware problem:

http://www.lpt2usb.net/main.sc

bgreen39 · Mar 25, 2014

Thanks Mike. It looks like just what I need.

Bob

DrB0b · Apr 8, 2014

Didn't know they still sold those. Good find Mike!

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