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Hello...

Having problems finding the right adaptor and was wondering if
anyone has been in a similar position could help out?

At work there are two elderly label printers that used to run using their
parallel cables to a data switch and then on to the pc. The cable from the
data switch to the pc is a double male DB25 (Belkin F2A047-06).
Enter brand new Dell. No one thought to ask if it had the right
connections for the hardware they want to run... so, of course, it only has
USB ports.

I was looking at this
http://www.directusbstore.co.uk/cnb/...duct_info-null
but it mentions "Supports Rs232 serial interface DB9 and DB25".

Is this the right adaptor? Should I be looking for a parallel DB25 to
USB?

Cheers for any help..


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Les Hemmings a.a #2251 SA

Les Hemmings wrote:
> Hello...
>
> Having problems finding the right adaptor and was
> wondering if anyone has been in a similar position could help out?
>
> At work there are two elderly label printers that used to run using
> their parallel cables to a data switch and then on to the pc. The
> cable from the data switch to the pc is a double male DB25 (Belkin
> F2A047-06). Enter brand new Dell. No one thought to ask if it had
> the right connections for the hardware they want to run... so, of
> course, it only has USB ports.
>
> I was looking at this
> http://www.directusbstore.co.uk/cnb/...duct_info-null
> but it mentions "Supports Rs232 serial interface DB9 and DB25".
>
> Is this the right adaptor? Should I be looking for a parallel DB25
> to USB?
>
> Cheers for any help..

I think i may have solved it with this
http://www.cables2u.co.uk/catalog/pr...f1ae02fe61ed81


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"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character
in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving
control-freak ; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a
misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal , genocidal , filicidal
, pestilential , megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously
malevolent bully" (Richard Dawkins)

http://armsofmorpheus.blogspot.com/

http://www.richarddawkins.net/index.php


Les Hemmings a.a #2251 SA

Les Hemmings wrote:
> Hello...
>
> Having problems finding the right adaptor and was wondering if
> anyone has been in a similar position could help out?
>
> At work there are two elderly label printers that used to run using their
> parallel cables to a data switch and then on to the pc. The cable from the
> data switch to the pc is a double male DB25 (Belkin F2A047-06).
> Enter brand new Dell. No one thought to ask if it had the right
> connections for the hardware they want to run... so, of course, it only has
> USB ports.
>
> I was looking at this
> http://www.directusbstore.co.uk/cnb/...duct_info-null
> but it mentions "Supports Rs232 serial interface DB9 and DB25".
>
> Is this the right adaptor? Should I be looking for a parallel DB25 to
> USB?

It looks like this adapter supports only RS232 *serial* connections.
(The DB25 only converts the DB9 connector to 25 pin, it's still serial!)

The easiest thing would be to get a parallel port PCI card, which will
make a standard parallel port available.

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