Re: No parallel port on laptop

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:41:26 GMT, jeff
<jalowe44INVALID@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Protagonist wrote:
We bought a small benchtop cnc mill and I'm trying to hook up this new
laptop to it, but it has only USB ports, no parallel.
i read, these USB to parallel port cables are not fully functional, may
not work with a cnc.
Any solution?
Thx, JS


An alternative to the USB emulators is a PCMCIA card EPP parallel port

http://www.provantage.com/quatech-pcmcia~110QTCK.htm

More expensive than the usb ports, but true IBM PC Parallel port
computability across a wide range of Windows OSs (9x/ME/Nt/2K/XP/CE)


Great solution !!

Will
.

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