Before there was today’s IEEE 1284 or RS-232 and all of those super fancy high-tech data transfer protocols, there was GPIB, or IEEE 488. GPIB has been used for almost 40 years and it is a marvel that for certain applications, GPIB is still alive and well.
Remember those old Commodore computers you grew up with, [...]
There are 3 main parallel interfaces. The 25 pin connection(1284a) as a standard is found on the computer end of the connection. While the 36 pin standards(1284b and 1284c) are found on the device side of the connection. HP printers will either have the smaller 36 pin connection(mini centronics or 1284c) or the larger 36 [...]
Here are some very easy instructions to get the Quatech Parallel PCMCIA card working with FastLynx:
1. Install the Quatech card and drivers
2. Open the Quatech Parallel Port properties in device manager
3. Click on Resources tab
4. [...]
Well, for all of you wonderful people who have been wondering if a USB to parallel adapter will work with a Parallel A/B switch, let me just let you know that it will. Just grab your A/B switch, hook the two printers up to it, and hook up the USB to Parallel adapter to the [...]
Every so often here at Sewell Direct, we add something that strikes us as being particularly helpful to our well-being. Enter the Intellinet Wireless Router/Print Server.
We carry a USB to Parallel adapter that works great with Macintosh computers. Not only that, but it is easy to setup. Just follow these simple instructions:
1. Plug the parallel end of the cable into your printer.
2. Plug the USB end of the cable into your Mac.
3. Open up your Printer List
4. Click on the [...]
I had a customer who was getting printer errors using our USB Printer Adapter. He had installed the manufacturer drivers (HP I believe) But every time he would restart the computer or reconnect his printer, it would install the printer again so he would have extra copies of the same printer in his [...]
USB to Parallel adapters are interesting adapters. They don’t work with any parallel devices that do anything other than print, and even some printers struggle connecting with these adapters. When customers have compatibility issues with parallel to USB adapters, there’s not too much to do.
In fact, there are only a few solutions we [...]
Here is a list of security dongles that have been tested with the Quatech Parallel PCMCIA cards. It is rare for these suggestions to not work, so try them, and if they dont work, contact either the manufacturer of the dongle, Quatech, or our support team.
Rainbow Security Dongle
Follow the directions below to configure the Sentinel [...]
I had a custome who was using our USB to Parallel Adapter with an older HP printer. It all installed fine, and he could print the test page perfectly, but when he used any other applications, like a spreadsheet or even a notepad document, the printer seemed to be working, but the page [...]