New laptop, old printer

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Hi, I just realized the laptop I ordered has no parallel port; however
my laser printer only has a parallel port. I suppose there's a parallel
to USB converter available somewhere, but I've never heard of it before.
Can someone confirm this is the best way to connect my printer and
laptop, and give me an estimated price for one of these cables? Thanks.

Mike

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

Michael Lee wrote:

> Hi, I just realized the laptop I ordered has no parallel port; however
> my laser printer only has a parallel port. I suppose there's a parallel
> to USB converter available somewhere, but I've never heard of it before.
> Can someone confirm this is the best way to connect my printer and
> laptop, and give me an estimated price for one of these cables? Thanks.

If your laptop has wifi then a wifi print server would be the way to go.
One less cable to plug. If you already have a WAP with hub then a
wired-network print server would be cheaper and accomplish the same result.

However if you froogle "USB parallel printer adapter" you'll get about
115,000 hits, most of which point to such a device at prices ranging from
$7-25.

> Mike

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--John
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Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

However, if you have a spot for the printer on the wired part of your
network, such as on the wired connections on your router, a wired print
server will work just as good as a wireless. You will still use the
wireless connection on your notebook to connect through the network.

Perry Webb
http://home.comcast.net/~pvwebb/ or http://www.angelfire.com/tx/PerryWebb/

"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@snet.net.invalid> wrote in message
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> Michael Lee wrote:
>
>> Hi, I just realized the laptop I ordered has no parallel port; however
>> my laser printer only has a parallel port. I suppose there's a parallel
>> to USB converter available somewhere, but I've never heard of it before.
>> Can someone confirm this is the best way to connect my printer and
>> laptop, and give me an estimated price for one of these cables? Thanks.
>
> If your laptop has wifi then a wifi print server would be the way to go.
> One less cable to plug. If you already have a WAP with hub then a
> wired-network print server would be cheaper and accomplish the same
> result.
>
> However if you froogle "USB parallel printer adapter" you'll get about
> 115,000 hits, most of which point to such a device at prices ranging from
> $7-25.
>
>> Mike
>
> --
> --John
> to email, dial "usenet" and validate
> (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)