How To Use That Parallel Port Printer With My New Laptop?
12/08/2007
Thinking “How to connect you parallel port printer to latest purchased laptop?”. This question appears in the mind of every person who is having a parallel port printer and wants to connect it to his/her laptop. Well the problem is that the laptops purchased nowadays do not have parallel port connecter in them. So what to do with that printer? Thinking of throwing it? Think once again.
Some great thinker had a thought and designed a solution for this problem. The solution is USB parallel adapter. All you need to do is connect the adapter to your laptop’s USB post and your printer’s parallel port to the adapter. And now you can use your printer easily.
This is not all. Think of some device that uses serial port. Well these latest costly laptops don’t have serial port too. So what to do now? Well remember your USB friend. Yes, serial USB adapters allow you to connect your serial port devices to your laptop. Procedure is similar to that of USB parallel adapters. You need to connect serial adapter to laptop’s USB and serial port of the device to the adapter. And start using your device. So from next time think twice before throwing any parallel or serial port device just because your laptop do not have the parallel or serial port interface to connect them. Your laptop’s USB can do magic to these devices with the help of serial and parallel adapters.