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USB to parallel cable and printer hangs
Hi Tony Thanks for your advice - I think that's sound idea. The biggest issue is that the printers and PCs belong to another company and they didn't want to spend £1500 each on new printers (they really do cost that much)and the PCs only have USB ports and no upgrade space for a parallel port...- Robeyx
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- Forum: PC hardware - Peripheral issues
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USB to parallel cable and printer hangs
I'm using some old (Datamax) parallel printers with USB to parallel cables. When printing, the printers will regularly just hang. The RAW documents are on the printer queue but the head of the queue shows to be in error. Occasionally, removing the cable and putting it back in causes the...- Robeyx
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- Forum: PC hardware - Peripheral issues
