Laptop Printer Connection

[royhouser]

I need to find a connector to plug into my laptop for a printer. It's not a parallel or a serial plug, it's smaller. Any idea what I'm talking about or where to get it? I'm using an old ACER laptop if it helps.

royhouser

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[edfair]

How about describing what it looks like? Parallel being 25 connector socket, and serial being 25 pin or 9 pin.
You could be seeing a scsi or expansion port, neither of which would be a printer connector.

Ed Fair
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[royhouser]

You could be very right. It's like no connecter I've ever used. It's a Male connector that looks similar to a Parallel port. It has approximately 45 "pins" and is about 2 inches wide and 1/2 inch tall.

Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.

royhouser

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[edfair]

Beats me. Would suspect a docking station.
Probably time to look at the ACER site.

Ed Fair
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[Aneurysm]

The 45 pin jobber also sounds like a docking station to me.

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[bcastner]

Or to connect an external floppy or CD Rom.
It most certainly is not a printer connection.