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Pros & Cons
Pros
Designer and builders of this card. Works great. Speedy delivery.
This card provides a native pci based parallel port for your laptop. I use this card to flash microcontrollers (via linux hosted in virtualbox in linux using virtualbox pci passthrough) perfect adapter for newer windows 7.
Got this card to use with gecko g540 cnc mill. Works perfect with my dell pent 4 2.
Cons
The scanner works with a dedicated xp pc alright but not in win7. Do yourself a favor and don't waste your time with this junk.
Highlights
Quality
I have used these at work as well, and the product works just fine.
The printer works fine with the i/o port on lpt3.
I initially was going to purchase the value version of this card (same manufac, but a few bucks cheaper) but read on the dell b... Read More
After installing the card in the computer, i opened the device manager and saw that the card showed up with the yellow symbol, ... Read More
Competitiveness
I have purchased numerous startech products and always well pleased
The cd contained drivers for virtually all versions of windows including windows 7, both 32- and 64-bit versions.
I first tried a usb to parallel conversion cable but even after downloading and installing new 64bit drivers, i could not get w... Read More
So i try these startech pci parallel ports cardfor my printing.
Overview
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port, parallel, new, old and needed. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 220.
- Previous analysis of this listing was an D grade.
- Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 187 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 9 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Since i deal with multicopy forms i still have an impact printer in my office that doesnt speak usb
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I was initially reluctant as no mention was made of win7 support here or at the startech site
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The port defaulted to lpt3 which can be renamed
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
For me it was worth a gamble considering that the usb port lock offered by the software vendor was going for 250
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If using a dongle you will still need to install drivers for the spacific dongle manufacture
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
No need to use the enclosed cd
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
However the hasp device works only with parralel port
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had tried another device which did not work usb to parallel port
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