Don't use COM ports, just get an extra LPT port for the system that the printers are connected to. Connect them both up at the same time, create a share for each (say \\printserver\dotmatrix and ...

Something has gone screwy with my printer. I have a new computer from Dell (a replacement to our old non-functioning one) that has Windows XP preloaded on it. (I'm finding this to be a really good OS ...

For portable-sensing and data- acquisition applications, a laptop computer and its parallel port (LPT) make good bedfellows. Yet in the effort to extend battery life, many microprocessors and entire ...

(1) A hardware interface that transfers one or more bytes simultaneously. See parallel interface. (2) A socket on a computer used to connect a printer or other device via a parallel interface (eight ...

If your small business is typical, you want to get the longest lifespan possible from your tech investment, and therefore you may have an older dot-matrix or laser printer with a parallel port that ...