Sending String via Parallel

Hey,

I've been searching the internet all day and have found nothing on how to send a string through the parallel port (LPT1), I've found alot about Serial ports tho.

Howerver I did find something called InpOut32 which works fine when wanting to send binary out the parallel port for Hi and low signals, but what about sending Text, e.g a person name.

I'm creating an VB windows application (not console) in VS 2005 that will be sending a String to Parallel port to a device but cannot find a way to do this through VB.net.

Has anyone done this before? how can it be done? Is there any source code I can look at.


Thanks in advance.