6ft USB Parallel Printer Adapter

Product Description:
With Keyspan USB Parallel Printer Adapter it's a snap to connect parallel printers to the USB port on your PC. Connecting your printer to the USB port leaves the parallel port free for ZIP drives or other parallel devices. Using your USB port for a printer connection also provides a convenient way to connect multiple printers to your PC.

Features:

• Windows & Mac Compatible
• Compatible with hundreds of parallel printers
• Works with standard Windows printer drivers
• Works with CUPS printing engine in Mac OS X
• Full Plug & Play compatibility

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Cheaply made cable - connections will break
We have a HP Laserjet 5MP (that works superbly even after 8 years of steady use) that we had hooked to our Mac G5 with this cable. This cable does work fine IF you DO NOT unhook it from the printer EVER, EVER, EVER, not even one time. If you do (even if you are VERRRRY careful) the cheap connections inside the boxed part come un-soldered therefore reducing this cable to garbage. There is no fixing it. We have been through 3 of this brand of cables and are now moving on to another brand. Please be ... Read More
Rating: - Doesn't work
I bought this cable to connect my 1995 HP Laserjet 5P/MP to a new IMac, based on reviews saying it worked, ignoring reviews that said it didn't work.Well, mine didn't work.Seems the manufacturer has been bought out; good luck finding the correct software on the webpage.My iMac does recognize the cable, but does not see the printer.A shame - this printer still has a few years left in it , I bet.
Rating: - Way Overpriced!!Don't buy it!!
Right after I purchased this cable, it came down in price by $6.00.Now there seems to be a plethora of these cables available on Amazon for around six bucks.NOT 27.00! What a rip off. And I'm embarrassed I bought it and already used it before I found out about the others.

Live and learn.
Rating: - It might have been great...
The good news: this is the ONLY cable I could find that would work with a Mac, almost all the others are PC only.

The bad news: if you have an Epson 2200 you still can't use it, because the cable comes with a thick plastic casing around the Parallel plug so it wouldn't fit into the printer outlet until I cracked open the casing a bit and jammed it on. (Then I still got an error response, but that may be because my printer sometimes has issues, not necessarily the fault of the cord.)
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Rating: - Keyspan USB-to-parallel adapter
6ft USB Parallel Printer Adapter
If you have a contemporary computer without a parallel cable connector and an older printer with a parallel but not a USB cable connector, the Keyspan-USB Parallel Printer adapter is a useful and solid product. I own and use the Keyspan USB-Parallel and USB-Serial adapters.

The unit will install itself when first plugged into a USB port with a system running Microsoft Windows. The trickiest part of the installation is in selecting the proper port assignment ... Read More