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USB to Parallel IEEE 1284 Printer Cable Adapter

USB to Parallel IEEE 1284 Printer Cable Adapter

SKU: CB-CN36
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Specs
  • Single cable USB to serial communication
  • USB full speed communication and bus-powered
  • Supports automatic handshake mode
  • Supports the RS-232 serial interface (standard 9-pin serial)
  • 1.8m length
Dimensions

4.6 x 7.38 x 5.1 in

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  • 5 stars: 180 (89%)
  • 4 stars: 19 (9%)
  • 3 stars: 1 (0%)
  • 2 stars: 1 (0%)
  • 1 star: 1 (0%)
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Brandon

Amazing product with really cool packaging, i love it

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Mason Clark
Worked first time

Worked first time I installed

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Brett Loubser
OMG, what a life saver, should have bought a long time ago!

OMG, what a life saver, should have bought a long time ago! No issues whatsoever, why did I wait so long to get one. If you have a old printer get this, you will be so impressed.

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Toluwani Oyebola
As advertized

Performed as described in listing

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Alka Ratta
Windows 11 compatible -- Thermal Datamax Printer works again!

This cable was awesome! It works on Windows 11 and lets me use my old thermal printer for printing shipping labels.The thermal printer I have has a USB port, but windows struggled to ever recognize it. With this cable I was able to see a new USB port in the preferences selected it and printer worked.

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Kabelo Scholtz
It is also compatable with Ubuntu Linux.

Needed a parallel port for an old dot matrix. Bought a old print server and an actual parallel cable but the server wouldn't acknowledge attempts to get in from a browser SOO i got this. Was worried cause Id have to host it from a Linux machine to share on my network, but after a short wait for Ubuntu to figure out what was going on it found the port no problem and I now have a 1992 dot matrix i can print to from my Android. Thank you for making such an easy product to set up and use.

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Augustina Afolabi
I'm able to use my old printer

I didn't have to spend money to buy new printer

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Garth Mraz
they still have this!

great product fffgfhrghgnghn

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Jasper Tumusiime
It works!

I needed to hook up computer to an older printer. And this cord had printer connection on one end and USB connection on the other. Works great.

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Tiffany Murungi
Easy Install

We were needing to hookup an older printer to a new computer that has Windows 10 installed on it. I was a little nervous because several people had said they couldn't get it to work with Windows 10. I plugged it up to the printer and computer and it connected right away and started printing. I was thrilled. However, a few days later I noticed random numbers and letters popping up on most of the pages I printed. I'm assuming this is a communication issue with Windows 10, and has nothing to do with the product itself, so we may not be able to use it long term. I think this will work great as long as you don't have a computer with Windows 10 connecting to a 20 year old printer like we did.

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Evalyn Johnson
Worked with my HP 5 laser printer

After downloading win10 driver it connected right away

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Raegan Smith
Works as advertised.

Worked perfectly for hooking up a serial printer via USB.

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Lolade Mustapha
To make an old HP Laser Jet printer work, you also need a Cat-5 cable.

HP LaserJet 4 Plus

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Toluwani Sekinat
Quality cable for old printers

Quality cable connection giving life to an old Lazer printer connected to a new PC.

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Marc Moosa
It worked

Bought this to hook up an ancient HP DeskJet882 directly to an old Gateway computer running Windows 7. After a few tweaks it worked perfectly. This computer had previously used this printer as part of a network with another computer so I think it got confused because there were now two printers with the same name. I deleted the old network name and all was good. As this computer appears to be in the end stages of a terminal illness I may update this review if I attempt to move the printer to my new computer running Windows 10. Best eight and a half dollars I have spent all year.Update: I did indeed buy a new computer using Windows 10 and I was able to get the printer to work. using this cable. As long as I can get ink, I will keep using this printer thanks to this cable. I did have to go to Microsoft to get a driver as HP no longer supports this printer but once I had the driver loaded it worked fine.

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Aminat Yaqub
Works Great

I can now use my 20yo Laser Printer again ... saved me more than $150 (new printer and new toner)

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Isaac Miller
As fast as installing the SSD internally ❤

I hooked this one between my PS5 and my Samsung evo 860 2TB as an external storage for my PS4 library and installed more than 1.7 TB of gamesThe speed is the same as when I used to have this SSD living in the PS4 Pro for a couple of yearsBest solution if you want to use your old PS4 SSD before we all jump into M.2 space!Just make sure to hook it to the PS5 rear blue USB 3.1 inputs ONLY

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Hemendra Loyal
Work perfect with ps5

I used this cable to add additional storage to my ps5, it works perfectly with my Samsung 1Tb Samsung SSD. I fully recommend.

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Felix Akankwasa
worked great

couldn't find the ones in my motherboard box so i decided to buy some more. this was the cheapest from a brand i recognized. i have sabrent usb hubs and no problems with them so i got these for my hard drives and they have been working as expected.

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Frederic Fahey
Usado en una xbox series S

Lo compre para colocar un ssd externo para una xbox series S y va sumamente rapido, practicamente todo el ancho de banda de un sata 3.

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Radha Sankar
My husband bought it I don’t know what’s this

Well, nice thing, hope it’s useful

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Berta Nankunda
Great when it works

A great cable when it works. Have to disconnect and reconnect sometimes and fiddle around with the connector. Gives great speeds when it does work though. Sometimes connected hard drives take a while to show up too. Besides that the quality is good. Nice thick cable.

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Telly Kutch
Cloning must-have

I used to have to lug around a powered SATA dock for running clonezilla and upgrading outdated platter drives with SSD’s. Now I have this and a thumb drive to boot clonezilla in my pocket. Works great on any SS/USB3.0 blue port.

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Adam VonRueden
Free Acronis cloning software

Worked great to clone and install a laptop SK Hynix SSD drive I got on Amazon. The software that came with the drive would not recognize the drive with a cable I had and did not with this cable either.This cable came with a link for free Acronis image cloning software that worked great!

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Alaknanda Edwin
Exactly what I needed

I've had another cable setup like this for several years and it worked well. I purchased a new SSD and needed to clone to it. My old cable kept failing so I ordered this as a new one. It worked great and I have tossed my old one out.

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Ifeoma Ajose-adeogun
Great product

Works great works with my ssd and HDD

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Jeremy Taylor
Works great with PC or console

I use two of these. One is used with a 2.5" internal SSD as extra storage for my Xbox consoles, and the other is also used with a 2.5" internal SSD but for backups of important files on my PC. No drivers needed, 100% plug and play. Works great.

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Gloria Nuwagaba
Used to connect extended storage to PS5

Bought this to connect a SATA 2TB SSD to my PS5 to use as extended storage. Works beautifully and am experiencing super fast load times still in-game.

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Anjali Wehner
Fast delivery, as described, good quality

Fast delivery, as described, good quality

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Elta Medhurst
excelente

lo que necesitaba.

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Damien Green
Worked as expected

This cable worked flawlessly and at good speed. I used my internal SD drive as an external one. It transferred as quickly as my PC will allow (about 180 MB/s) for optimal files. Transfers slow down considerably for smaller files as is the same with any transfer cable or device. Worked perfect. I will update if I have problems in the future.

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Zackery McCullough
Perfect!

it works and does its job

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