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4.5
The cable worked on my Hp newer laptop. I have a HP Laserjet 2100m. Coming from my old computer I needed a USB end. I took a gamble on this cable and it worked. I'm happy to have my reliable printer back.I thought I could download into the matrix with this cable. Turns out you need a CAT5 cable.Does what it was built to do, traverses (or however you wanna word it) the line from a old-fashioned LPT Line Printer Terminal cable (yes) to a new USB port. In fact, I tried it in both a 2.0 USB port and 3.0, this cable actually 'liked' the 3.0 newer port better than being led to a USB 2 port! wow how bout dat huh?It flawlessly sent the image very quickly to a mid 2000s LPT printer, without any stalling, any issues, any drama or problem. I was astounded that happened, kinda smiled...... [^:} It sent an image in color by the way. Small amount of megabytes over the line, not a giant photo or any heavy send like that, but like a few Megs picture to the printer ---- worked the first time!That's all I want, beauty in simplicity, with computing and gadgets. I am on Windows 7 x64 bee tee dub.Now I can talk to my antiquated Data I/O eprom programmer!I recently got a new Mac, and the driver for my old ISD-725-based USB-1284 cable will no longer run on the latest MacOS. I plugged this adapter in and it just worked. I'm running MacOS 12.4 with a LaserJet 5MP, everything I've thrown at it so far prints correctly and quickly. Definitely worth the purchase!I bought an HP 5000 Laser printer thirty years ago. It still works gread, but its best interface is a parallel connector.My new computer has USB ports. I took a chance on this and it works great.I bought this adapter when I connected an old IBM dot matrix printer to a much newer Hewlett Packard desk top computer. I had to download an old printer driver over the Internet, but I found one, and the printer still worked! Unbelievable!!I HAD TO RETURN IT, MY FAULT, WRONG USB PLUGMy Carrera computer is ten years old and runs Windows XP, so I am working on a replacement strategy. My HP Laserjet 6P black-and white printer is rock-solid reliable and I would like to keep it on a replacement Windows 10 machine. I gather the parallel-output printer interface is now obsolete at the computer end of things, so I bought this cable to see if I could drive the Laserjet 6p from one of the USB 2.0 ports on my Carrera. I plugged it in and Windows XP straigh- away recognised the printer and assigned a driver to it. So, an excellent result, and from other reviews I expect to be able to transfer the printer & cable over to my Windows 10 system when I get it.Great product. We'll packaged and worked a treat for my ancient HP450c. It was delivered quickly and is a quality item. It's also half the price of anything I found on ebay.If you have the same printer you need to remember to configure the printer to use the usb port and find a suitable driver which took me a little while and a bit of Google searching to suss. If I can find the link I'll repost it here. Now if anyone can tell me how to manually clean the heads lolI require an IEEE 1284 parallel cable for an HP Laserjet 1100a printer model: CC2442A to a standard 12mm USB. Dimensions are 27.5mm internal. I would prefer a single cable rather than a converter. 1 1/2 days was not enough to return the original lead it seems most unreasonable for returns to be such a short amount of time. Can you help me further as I am unable to use this Parallel cable sandwich that measures 49mm internal to operate my printer?I suspect product is fine the device is recognised as an unknown USB although it does seem to partially identify whtrying to select .My problem , which is likely most other peoples problem is that we have very old devices , the drivers for which are not available from the manufacturer because they got used to them being incorporated in the say xp or 7 and they are no longer available from Microsoft because , you know , xp was a good stable bit of software and was quite user friendly , so stuff the customer lets develop something else which is not as good , and if you need support ? Well get lost .So the cable is fine but before you buy make sure you still have the drivers , and if anyone knows how to get the driver for brother hl1030 laser printer which is still going strong after twenty years please let me know here , thanks .shows as a USB port not a LPT port, yet the description states its fully IEEE 1284 compliant which would include EEP/ECP so not sure how this can be true, anyway it did not work for my requirements, so pretty dissapointed, as the description states this model does cater for devices other than printers, well in my case it doesn't
