Any ideas on where to pick up a reasonable, reliable one from? Under £10 would be good

Need to use a laptop with an older HP LaserJet and have no parallel port. Tried a cheap cable I picked up, but all I got was garbage output out of the HP.

Cheers,

Steve

Not sure on this myself TBH. Can you not get a PCMCIA card with one on?

My Dad brought an old HP Dekskjet home, looks in good nick but only takes a paralell port.

Will be testing it when he brings all the power cables back.

Searched Fleabay and found these

No idea about reliability (I didn't even realise they existed) but found a few like this USB to Parallel 36 Pin Centronics Printer Adapter Cable - Techfocus

It's 'Centronics' rather than 'Parallel' - Parallel is the 25way D type connection on the PC end.

Cheers guys, will take a look at the links. PCMCIA would be an option, hadn't considered that. If I can find a working solution that is!

Steve

Any ideas on where to pick up a reasonable, reliable one from? Under £10 would be good

Need to use a laptop with an older HP LaserJet and have no parallel port. Tried a cheap cable I picked up, but all I got was garbage output out of the HP.

Cheers,

Steve

Check out USB Parallel Printer Port Cable 25 pin female socket: usb25 Cablestar - Computer Cables

Worth a go that - a returns policy and cheap enough

Thanks,

Steve

RS components sell them for about £7.

Roll.... sommat or other. Very good and reliable. Our firm's bee using them years!

Your firm's been using RS, or these sorts of cables?

(I know RS are a good lot )

Cheers,

Steve

LOL, the cables

Good answer

Will take a look on their site, cheers.

Steve

I bought the cheapest I could find off ebay. Less than a fiver deliver and it works fine on Mac OS X and Win XP.

I needed mine for an HP Laserjet 2100 ans it picked it up using built in drivers on both machines straight away - no need to install any USB drivers even though they were supplied on a CD.