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Your cart is empty.The ICUSB1284 6 ft USB to Parallel Printer Adapter - M/M allows USB capable PCs to print to any standard parallel printer, converting a USB port into a Centronics (male) connector for direct connection to a parallel printer. The USB interface provides a much faster data transfer rate than standard parallel ports, thereby reducing the time spent waiting for a print job or data transfer to be sent. A portable, space-saving solution, the USB to Parallel Printer Adapter is self-powered and provides Plug and Play installation on Windows based, USB-compliant computers. Backed by a StarTech..
DouglasB
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2024
Works like a champ with my Zebra / UPS Thermal 2542 printer that has a parallel port (and serial). The serial port worked fine in UPS, but in third party shipping apps, that use a PDF it was very slow to print the image via the serial port. Plugged this in to the PC, the other end to the parallel port of the thermal printer, changed the port setting of the printer to USB001, and prints instantly. Turns my 10 year old+ thermal printer into a super fast USB version for the price of a cable.
Michel
Reviewed in Belgium on October 24, 2024
Ne fonctionne pas avec une clé HASP ( LPT1 ) pour protection Windev :-(
William McWhorter
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2024
Bought this cable to connect a 20 year old HP Laser Jet printer to USB on a Windows 10 computer. Windows had no problem finding a driver and installing the printer using the new cable.
Cliente
Reviewed in Spain on September 8, 2023
mide 3 metros, el unico que he encontrado de mas de 1,5m. Funciona perfectamente con un plotter HP
Guesn
Reviewed in France on November 29, 2023
Parfait pour utiliser une vieille imprimante laser sur un ordi récent.
Chip Cooper
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2022
My client has an old Epson TM-T88II parallel thermal printer and has a micro PC so we couldn't add a parallel port to it. Epson thermal printers are hard to get right now so that wasn't really an option. I was going to get a USB adapter for the printer, but they are $100+ so thought we'd try this cable instead. Windows 10 automatically installed the driver. I then manually added the printer (as generic/text only which is what their POS application wants) and selected a local USB port. That's all there was to it. I tried a test print and it worked. I'm not sure if the Epson driver's setup program would have found it but installing manually worked great.
Buy Air
Reviewed in Canada on December 20, 2016
Works with Windows 10. Allowed me to hookup an old outdated printer and use it on a brand new laptop. May need to update the Windows printer list for some printers but for mine Windows 10 already had it.
Governor
Reviewed in Canada on December 15, 2016
As described and on time delivery.
Neil D.
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2012
First off, this arrived from Amazon very quickly using Free Shipping.My PC recognized this USB device immediately when I plugged it in. I did not connect the Centronics connector to my printer until I was satisfied the PC was happy with just the device. At no point have I had any problems directly related to this device, and once I got over one hump, my printer performs perfectly.The only reason I gave this 4-stars rather than 5 is the absence of any guidance or literature-none! If it was truly just a plug and play operation there would be no problem, but there was a problem.My computer (Win XP) has always printed to port LPT1 by default. When I switched to this cable LPT1 was no longer connected to anything yet my PC kept trying to print to it. It was not intuitive enough to know to print to a different port. It took me a good 30 minutes to an hour to learn how to redirect the printing to this device. I am only very modestly computer-skilled and needed to fumble around a bit before I learned what needed to be done and how to do it. Once I directed printing to this new port the problem was immediately solved. Just a little bit of printed guidance or a web reference would have been really helpful and appreciated. A couple small clues would have helped a lot. I believe anyone who simply uses a computer as a tool with no knowledge of it's operation would have to ask for help to use this device, but there is no telephone number or web reference for any kind of manufacturers or distributors contact or support.I would recommend this to anyone but with the caution that they might have to seek some help getting past the initial print port issue. Also, this is only rated up to Win XP machines according to the card in the blister pack so whether it is further certified for Win 7 is questionable. Perhaps the card is outdated or perhaps it is truly not rated beyond Win XP??
jdr
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2012
I'm convinced the cable is a solid product. (No comment on included driver disk... not required for Windows 7, and other recent operating systems)Wondering if this cable will work for you? I recommend following the first 8 steps below.If your printer driver is listed in step 8, I suspect your chances of this cable working for you is near 100%I struggled for a week to get this working. Here's the rub I encountered:I'm using a very old printer (HP Laserjet iip). When I tried to "add a printer" via the "Devices & Printer" dialog, the HP laserjet iip driver was not listed. I tried using the "Windows Update" option referred to on reviews here, and on countless other forums to no avail, because they fail to mention a key point.Here's the "key point": In order to update the list of printer drivers via "windows update", you must have selected the LPT1 printer port.... EVEN IF YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT HAVE A PARALLEL LPT1 PRINTER PORT.So here's my attempt to explain the steps necessary to get this cable to work on Windows 7 64bit OS, using an old printer not natively listed in Win7 printer driver list:First, update printer driver list & install your printer driver:1- Select "Start"2- Select "Devices & Printers"3- Select "Add a printer" (near top of dialog)4- Select "Add a local Printer"5- Select "Use an existing port: LPT1 (Printer Port) - EVEN OF YOU DON'T HAVE THIS PORT6- Select "Next"7- Select "Windows Update" (may take a while... but will update driver list)8- Select the manufacturer and printer from the scrollable list9- Select "Next"10- Enter a junk printer name like xxxxx11- (since you don't have LPT1 this will go away after next boot)12- Select "Next" (will install printer driver)13- Select "Do Not share this Printer"14- Select "Next"15- Select FinishNow that the print driver has been installed on your PC, attach the USB cable to your PC(Win 7 will install a the USB cable driver automatically)Then execute similar steps as follows16- Select "Start"17- Select "Devices & Printers"18- Select "Add a printer" (near top of dialog)19- Select "Add a local Printer"20- Select "Use an existing port: USB001 ***(NOTE: if you have other USB printers then select the maximum USB port number)21- Select "Next"22- Select the manufacturer and printer from the scrollable list23- Select "Next"24- Select "use the driver that is currently installed (recommended)25- Select "Next"26- Enter an appropriate printer name (e.g. HP Laserjet iip)27- Select "Next" (will install printer driver)28- Select "Do Not share this Printer" (unless you want to share the printer)29- Select "Next"30- Select FinishHere's hoping this helps anyone!
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