Dear Lazyweb

[chezmax]

My Grandfather bought a new computer, which apparently has no parallel ports. He has an older model HP Laserjet, which apparently has no USB ports, but has a parallel port, and an E10 port (I have no idea what an E10 port is, do you?).

Is there anything I can do or buy to make his old printer work with his new computer?

Comments

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

that's an EIO slot, you can get adapters, but yes, they cost more then the printer, even on ebay.

otherwise, a jetdirect EX Plus, or a 300X or a 170x(offhand, can't remember for sure if those are the right numeric models) will let you put it on the network and everyone can print to it without going through his computer.

windows 2000, xp, vista and linux have native support to use jetdirects, and win95/98 can be made to work with them.

[chezmax]

I ended up getting the Future Shop "Dynex" USB<->Parallel adaptor, which, thankfully, Vista knew what to do with. It was $40, but still cheaper then a new Laserjet. :)

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

and idiot proof is always handy :) unfortunately vista doesn't have drivers for some of the older printers, and god help you if you have a 64bit version of vista or xp, the driver support for printers is just horrid.

[chezmax]

It's a pretty generic PCL6 printer, so it was good. :)