Don't use COM ports, just get an extra LPT port for the system that the printers are connected to. Connect them both up at the same time, create a share for each (say \\printserver\dotmatrix and ...

I have a PC-based DSO that connects via parallel port that I'd like to get working via USB (preferable) or at least ExpressCard. I picked up a USB-parallel adapter from MicroCenter thinking it would ...

After connecting a device with a serial port with the computer via the Prolific PL2303 cable, some users have received the following error message: Please install the ...

The oscilloscope utilizes the SPP or EPP parallel port LPT1 for reading the data from ADC0820 (TLC0820). The program will automatically switch the LPT1 in byte mode or normal mode if the LPT is an ECP ...

With the continuing manufacture of new computers, there is a clear and obvious trend of the parallel port becoming less and less common. For our younger readers; the parallel port is an interface ...

For portable-sensing and data- acquisition applications, a laptop computer and its parallel port (LPT) make good bedfellows. Yet in the effort to extend battery life, many microprocessors and entire ...

First introduced in 1970, parallel ports were originally designed to connect business computers to printers. With their inclusion on the IBM PC in the early 1980s, they became an industry standard.