you will just have to Try it. some printers work fine with those USB to
Parallel Converters and some don't. In some cases you will also loose
the "Back Talk" to the Computer to the printer. Paper out etc.
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JH>My Christmas present was a new Dell Dimension E521. Pretty nice, but
JH>uses USB for peripheral devices, including mouse, keyboard, and printer.

JH>I do have one printing device here with USB support, but my sweet wife
JH>wants it to be over there on _her_ computer. My other printers here all
JH>use parallel port.

JH>I've found USB to Parallel adapter cables for sale at Ebay fairly
JH>reasonably priced.

JH>Anything I particularly need to look out for?

JH>Will I be able to just hook up one of my parallel port printers to the
JH>computer via the cable, and have WinXP-Media center recognize it and the
JH>printer work OK?

JH>FWIW, my first candidate printers for this are HP Laserjet 4L and 6L.

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