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Pros

Used it to connect an hp laserjet 5mp to a windows 10 pc. Worked flawlessly with my hp laserjet 2300 printer. If you have an older printer that you need to connect to your computer that has no lpt ports, this do-hicky does the trick. Saved me from buy...  Read More

The adapter works fine, it's windows 8. One the installation instructions are not included with the cable. Brought hp lazer in1992, very expensive at the time and ran with windows 3. Works great on linux.


Cons

The printer works fine with a win xp machine that has a parallel port, but nothing happens with this parallel-to-usb cable. The drivers package on the support site won't install on windows 7.

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Quality

Again: the adapter works fine, it's windows 8.

I was extremely happy with the final result.

A nice well made product but still couldn't get my 20-year-old parallel printer to work even with the correct software & drivers.

I don't blame the cable or the product.

Price

Works great and the price was right.

Competitiveness

My old work-horse hp 4000 lives on with win7 and this cable!

Works like a charm running on win7!

But, within a half hour, brian's steadfast and genius assistance i now have my hp laserjet 2100 back and it's now on a windows ...  Read More

My new dell inspiron 3910 pc with windows 11 only has usb ports.

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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    port, parallel, old, great and needed.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 79.4% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 542 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 26 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I have to say that it works fantastic as long as you do not have to plug unplug thing

    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I use mine on a laptop and every time i plug it back in the first print job screws up 7 out of 10 times by printing up to a hundred pages of one line gibberish

    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This is not the cables fault it is the stupid windows 8

    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    So everytime i need to use it on my laptop i have to plug it in turn the printer on reboot the laptop wait for both then run my print jobs

    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    If the gibberish starts then i just cancel the print job reboot the computer print a test page if its all fine then i restart my print job

    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    We had a couple of old hp printers that still work and we have some expensive toner for but the new computers no longer use parallel connectors

    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Epson thermal printers are hard to get right now so that wasnt really an option

    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I was going to get a usb adapter for the printer but they are 100 so thought wed try this cable instead

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