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Cables To Go 16899 6 Feet Usb To Db25 Ieee Parallel Printer Adapter | 
 enlarge | Brand: Cables To Go
Category: CE
List Price: $17.99
Buy New: $8.52
You Save: $9.47 (53%)
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Rating:  13 reviews
Color: Blue
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Network Interface: USB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 4 x 5 x 1
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 16899
Model: 16899
UPC: 757120168997
EAN: 0757120168997
ASIN: B000UX21PY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Connectors: USB A Male to DB25 Female | | • | Connects to the parallel cable from your printer to a USB port on your computer | | • | Perfect for inkjet, laser and other high-speed printers | | • | Supports standard PC parallel port operation | | • | Auto-negotiates hardware recognition for faster protocol setup |
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Product Description
The USB to DB25 IEEE-1284 Printer Cable by Cables To Go enables a parallel printer to be connected to a USB port on a PC or hub. This is ideal for computers without a parallel port or in order to free up the parallel port for a Zip drive or scanner. Forget the hassles of IRQ sharing by adapting your high-speed printer to USB. If you have multiple printers, you can eliminate the need for a switchbox by connecting each printer to a USB port. The device is fully transparent to the user and is ideal for true bi-directional communication.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 worked for me; maybe not you October 8, 2008
Rion (Alameda, CA USA)
The best advice I can give someone is to do just what you are right now: read online reviews! Lots of them. Go to the online sellers that have reviews (amazon, buy, new egg). You will eventually have to realize that the well-known name brands are more likely to work, but failures seem to be totally random and unpredictable. So be prepared to return it for a refund. I really think the manufacturers must be aware of the problems and they are choosing not to warn us.
I tried this adapter on four different printers and it only worked on one, which was, luckily, the one I really NEEDED it to work on. I also bought a cheap, no-name adapter off eBay which would not work at all and had to be returned.
I have a PowerMac running Tiger (OS X 10.4) and a Apple Laserwriter. Initially, print jobs would print, but only the first one after powering on the printer; subsequent jobs would fail. This was unacceptable. It turned out, however, that I needed to reinstall and update the OS on my MAC, and after that, printing was just fine with this adapter. There is a freeware print buffer enhancer called 'usbtb' which supposedly assists in this situation; I tried this and it prevented me from printing altogether!
I have a friend who has an iMAC running Leopard (OS X 10.5) and he has 3 HP printers. He and I were hopeful that this adapter would work for him and we decided to test it before he bought one. The Laserjet 2100 would just print blank pages. The old LaserJet 2P+ would not do anything. The LaserJet 4L would occasionally print something, but most jobs would not print and we could not really find any rhyme or reason behind this. So my experience is 25%, but even that is seeing it optimistically.
What's wrong with these things? All I can figure is that printer drivers/firmware at each end of the cable are not all that robust and have some tight communication timings such that an adapter like this will introduce slight time delays that can throw things off.
 No problem connecting an old NEC Superscript 870 to iMac September 11, 2008
Sake Woods (Ann Arbor, MI USA)
As title, there is no problem using this product to connect an 8 year old NEC Superscrit 870 to an 2008 iMac. It started to work right away. No instruction needed. Great product.
 Not for All September 5, 2008
anonymous
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This cable didn't work in connecting a hp deskjet 710c to a new hp notebook running vista 64. enough said.
Works in iMac with an HP Laserjet 4 August 28, 2008
Jeffrey Van Wagoner (Gilbert, AZ USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My PC recently died and I replaced it with a new iMac with Mac OSX 10.5. I love my LaserJet 4 since it is so reliable and cheap to operate, and didn't want to rely exclusively on my inkjet printer. I decided to give this cable a try since it had good reviews. I took a risk using it on a Mac since it didn't state that it supported Macs, but it ended up working perfectly.
Installation was a breeze. Note that this cable does not plug directly into the printer, but plugs into the computer end of the existing parallel cable. I'm OK with that since it gave me more length. When I plugged it in, the Mac recognized it as a new printer with a generic driver. All I needed to do was change the driver to the HP LaserJet 4 driver and it worked fine.
I initially tried plugging this into a USB hub, but it only worked for a couple of sheets and then gave me a message that the printer was offline. I then plugged it directly into the Mac and it has worked perfectly since then. I also have another Mac and a PC on the network and they recognize the printer and print fine.
Works great with both Laser and Inkjet printers July 6, 2008
Clay Cope (Seattle, WA)
I've used this now on both injet and laserjet 6P printers at my house. I'm running Windows XP, and it's as easy as plug and play.
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