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Driver Installation Ease

Customers generally had positive experiences with the ease of driver installation for the StarTech.com 1-Port Parallel PCIe Card, but some encountered difficulties in using it on Linux systems. Most users reported that the process was straightforward and that they were able to install the drivers without issue, while a small group mentioned experiencing problems with compatibility on non-Windows operating systems.

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Quality


So i believe that they have built their tech support into the products with excellent design and quality control.


This parallel card works perfectly, i have dot matrix printers hooked up to it and perfect!


I got this for a client who has a receipt printer with a parallel port interface and they were upgrading their really old pc to...  Read More


Works as advertised, good quality takes some time to fit but worth it

Price


I’m very pleased with the result for an economical option.


The price tag is pretty high considering this is a decades old part, but hey, it works pretty good

Packaging/appearance


One minor complaint was that one of the pins for the second parallel port connection was bent (did not affect ability) which ob...  Read More

Competitiveness


I’ve used other startech products with good luck so the brand played a role in my choice too.

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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    parallel, port, good and old.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 87 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 29 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    After looking at it and the card slot its supposed it go into i thought it wasnt the right card


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The card and the slot were two different sizes but i guess thats how it works


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The drivers was ok to install i checked the device manager and it had another device without a driver which windows found very easily


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Have some customer that are still running old parallel printers


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This pci card allowed me to connect the pc to the printer in spite of the fact that hp doesnt list it as being compatible with windows 11


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    You just have to download and install the pci driver to the lpt1 port and then download and then manually install the correct driver for your printer


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    One minor complaint was that one of the pins for the second parallel port connection was bent did not affect ability which obviously indicates it was damaged during assembly or packaging


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It came with two shorter brackets as promised and a driver installation cd

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