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I'm building a gaming rig for my grandpa and he has an old printer he doesn't want to have to ditch, but the motherboard I'm really hoping to use doesn't have parallel support. I was wondering if this cable would be able to make it work on a USB port? If not is there any other solutions?
I can't see why not i would be more concered as to wether you can get drivers for the old printer.
there are plenty of paralell to usb adapters available. my question is why you are going that top-of-the-line with a computer for him. I am quite aware that only high-end gaming motherboards come with only usb ports. Get a different motherboard with built-in parallel support. it will be faster.
It'll be for running games like flight sims at a high res, so a fast mobo is a must.
you should be able to find an equivalent board with a parallel port. Those are extra chipsets on the board and don't slow the board down. Are you looking at a fatal1ty board? if so it's overpriced. But anyway there isn't any good reason for them to leave the port off when boards with them have 12 usb hookups.
Lots of USB are quite important since he has a lot of USB peripherals, but I'll keep my eyes peeled for a mobo I like that has a parallel port. And peripheral speed doesn't matter over the parallel port - the printer only does 6ppm at best. I think I will just tell him it's time to upgrade to a new printer. And no - the mobo i the same one I built my computer with.
if it's a dot matrix he might have a reason to stick with it. I printed out over a thousand sheets of paper with one ribbon with my old ibm PPS 2380. How many hundreds of dollars in inkjet ink would that be?
lots - but when he needs a new one, it'll be laser. Anyways - I just got the cable and it says it will work fine with parallel printers. Thanx guys. :wave: