- USB/parallel cable /&/ scanner ?
- Posted by stuseven@hotmail.com on November 28th, 2005
+
I've seen several adapter cables being sold
which connect a parallel printer to computer via USB...
would this kind of plug also work for a parallel port
scanner ?
- Posted by kenny on November 28th, 2005
why do you ask? I have never seen such a cable. but in case it does not work
for you.....
there are PCI cards that have parallel ports if your pc does not have one.
If you are talking about a laptop there are pcmcia cards with parallel
ports.
Or you could always get an USB scanner since its faster than parallel.
There are some really cheap ones around...
<stuseven@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1133217952.724843.56410@g44g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
- Posted by The Wanderer on November 29th, 2005
On 28 Nov 2005 14:45:52 -0800, stuseven@hotmail.com wrote:
What O/S are you using? When I upgraded from W98 to XP my rather antiquated
Epson scanner (bi-directional parallel port) wasn't compatible with XP and
I had to upgrade to a USB scanner.
--
the dot wanderer at tesco dot net
- Posted by stuseven@hotmail.com on November 29th, 2005
..."why do I ask" is for the following reason kenny,
and thank you for replying...
...a standard parallel printer port is for sending
signals to the printer... with a scanner, the primary
signals are going from the device to the computer...
the other replier mentioned "two way parallel
connection", so this may be standard... Im not
expert in this, but it occurred to me there might
be problems using a scanner instead of a printer.
- Posted by The Wanderer on November 30th, 2005
On 29 Nov 2005 15:06:57 -0800, stuseven@hotmail.com wrote:
When I bought my original scanner, it actually came with a bi-di parallel
port expansion card. Your PC will probably have one parallel port as
standard, I wanted a second port so that I could use scanner and printer
without having to change plugs or anything like that.
Because I'd always had the second port, daft as it may seem, I'd never
acually tried the scanner in the primary parallel port, but I'm pretty much
certain that the primary port *will* be bi-di. My last printer connected to
the primary port, but it's associated software could monitor the ink
cartridges, paper tray, things like that, so the printer *must* have been
sending info back to the PC, IYSWIM.
The scanner cable was a standard parallel cable. All I would say, though,
if you're thinking of buying a (possibly s/h) scanner, make sure it's
compatible with whatever O/S you have on your PC.
HTH
--
the dot wanderer at tesco dot net
