Many laser printers last for years, so businesses often keep older laser printers around even after upgrading other hardware. Many older laser printers use a parallel port interface rather than the ...

I am working on a win98 computer with flaky usb ports but a good parallel port.It uses a usb HP deskjet. Is there an adapter to solve this problem? If I use a usb pci card she will lose her sound card ...

It appears that a parallel port still has greater bandwidth than a USB port does, as long as you don't run it in SPP mode, . That said, I would use USB for a laptop, or if you are connecting a second ...

First introduced in 1970, parallel ports were originally designed to connect business computers to printers. With their inclusion on the IBM PC in the early 1980s, they became an industry standard.

More on printing issues We continue to receive a significant number of reports regarding printing problems under Mac OS X 10.3.2, particularly with Hewlett Packard 5-series laser printers. Al Mateczun ...