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Dingus

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Anyone got ideas on this problem.....

I want to be able to use a USB printer on a machine that has a Centronics
printer output port.
The printer port on the machine is not a 25 pin parallel socket, it is a
Centronics socket.

The machine provides the option to select types of printers, eg: Epson, B&W,
Color, IBM etc.

If anyone knows of a readily available piece of hardware, that would be
great. Otherwise a circuit or circuit ideas.

Thanks in advance,

Cheers.

!!! HAPPY & PROSPEROUS 2005 TO ALL !!!
 
If your printer is a parallel port, go out and buy a parallel port card for
your computer, open it up, and install the card. Converting USB to parallel
is not a good idea. I found this type of conversion to not be reliable. As
for building your own converter, this I have no idea of, or would even
bother to go that far.

The other alternative, which is more expensive is to put an Ethernet to
parallel converter on your computer network. Then you can have the printer
work as a network printer.

--

Jerry G.
=====

"Dingus" <dingus@iniindabababa.co.zu> wrote in message
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Anyone got ideas on this problem.....

I want to be able to use a USB printer on a machine that has a Centronics
printer output port.
The printer port on the machine is not a 25 pin parallel socket, it is a
Centronics socket.

The machine provides the option to select types of printers, eg: Epson, B&W,
Color, IBM etc.

If anyone knows of a readily available piece of hardware, that would be
great. Otherwise a circuit or circuit ideas.

Thanks in advance,

Cheers.

!!! HAPPY & PROSPEROUS 2005 TO ALL !!!
 
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:16:32 +1300, "Dingus"
<dingus@iniindabababa.co.zu> wrote:

Anyone got ideas on this problem.....

I want to be able to use a USB printer on a machine that has a Centronics
printer output port.
The printer port on the machine is not a 25 pin parallel socket, it is a
Centronics socket.
All of the parallel<->USB converters seem to be for a USB on the PC side
and parallel on the printer side.

The simplest, most reliable solution would be for you to get a USB
interface card for the machine if you can find one for the motherboard's
bus structure. ISA?

Another alternative would be to hang the printer off of a second
machine, configured to share the printer, and network the two machines
together.

A bespoke solution wouldn't be impossible, with a microcontroller or
FPGA in the middle taking care of the protocol conversion.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
 
"Dingus" <dingus@iniindabababa.co.zu> schreef in bericht
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Anyone got ideas on this problem.....

I want to be able to use a USB printer on a machine that has a Centronics
printer output port.
The printer port on the machine is not a 25 pin parallel socket, it is a
Centronics socket.

The machine provides the option to select types of printers, eg: Epson,
B&W,
Color, IBM etc.

If anyone knows of a readily available piece of hardware, that would be
great. Otherwise a circuit or circuit ideas.

Thanks in advance,

Cheers.

!!! HAPPY & PROSPEROUS 2005 TO ALL !!!
 
Does this specialized machine have Ethernet capability?

If so and you want only to use a USB printer, your only solution would
be to get a simple PC machine that can run Windows that has USB ports,
and use it as a network printer server. Any good IT man can set this up
very quickly, as long as he can know the setup for your source machine
that you say is specialized, and that the printer you buy is network
compatable between the two machines.

Also, you should consider that HP, and a few others still make parallel
port type printers for industrial applications.

Jerry G.
======
 
"Dingus" <dingus@iniindabababa.co.zu> wrote:
I want to be able to use a USB printer on a machine that has a Centronics
printer output port.
Get thee to the local computer shop in the lovely land of Zu. Standard
product, probably find one for $9.95 (no-name whitebox).

--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics.
Remove spaces etc. to reply: n o lindan at net com dot com
psst.. want to buy an f-stop timer? nolindan.com/da/fstop/
 
I want to be able to use a USB printer
on a machine that has a Centronics printer output port.
Dingus

Get thee to the local computer shop in the lovely land of Zu.
Standard product, probably find one for $9.95 (no-name whitebox).
Nicholas O. Lindan
Yup.
http://www.google.com/froogle?&q=parallel-to-usb+-usb-to-parallel+-usb-to-*-parallel
 
.... they hast not one, nor they say, shalt there ever be such a one amongst
us.
If thou has, please givest thy unto me the brand name and model number.
I shalt be forever and ever, greatful

"Nicholas O. Lindan" <see@sig.com> wrote in message
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"Dingus" <dingus@iniindabababa.co.zu> wrote:

I want to be able to use a USB printer on a machine that has a
Centronics
printer output port.

Get thee to the local computer shop in the lovely land of Zu. Standard
product, probably find one for $9.95 (no-name whitebox).

--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics.
Remove spaces etc. to reply: n o lindan at net com dot com
psst.. want to buy an f-stop timer? nolindan.com/da/fstop/
 
.... unfortunately will not be able to load the driver, as the machine
does not have a HDD, keyboeard or Windows operating system.
It is not a PC, its a great big piece of industrial machienery.

"JeffM" <jeffm_@email.com> wrote in message
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I want to be able to use a USB printer
on a machine that has a Centronics printer output port.
Dingus

Get thee to the local computer shop in the lovely land of Zu.
Standard product, probably find one for $9.95 (no-name whitebox).
Nicholas O. Lindan

Yup.

http://www.google.com/froogle?&q=parallel-to-usb+-usb-to-parallel+-usb-to-*-parallel
 
The problem is this. The 'machine' is a US$0.3M piece of industrial plant,
not a PC, and has a Centronics printer port attached for use with a
centronics type printer. Practically all modern available printers are USB.
We would like to be able to run an 'off-the-shelf' USB printer from this
'machine'.

"Jerry G." <jerryg50@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:33glt5F3vmnrhU2@uni-berlin.de...
If your printer is a parallel port, go out and buy a parallel port card
for
your computer, open it up, and install the card. Converting USB to
parallel
is not a good idea. I found this type of conversion to not be reliable.
As
for building your own converter, this I have no idea of, or would even
bother to go that far.

The other alternative, which is more expensive is to put an Ethernet to
parallel converter on your computer network. Then you can have the printer
work as a network printer.

--

Jerry G.
=====

"Dingus" <dingus@iniindabababa.co.zu> wrote in message
news:fnDAd.3499$mo2.189375@news.xtra.co.nz...
Anyone got ideas on this problem.....

I want to be able to use a USB printer on a machine that has a Centronics
printer output port.
The printer port on the machine is not a 25 pin parallel socket, it is a
Centronics socket.

The machine provides the option to select types of printers, eg: Epson,
B&W,
Color, IBM etc.

If anyone knows of a readily available piece of hardware, that would be
great. Otherwise a circuit or circuit ideas.

Thanks in advance,

Cheers.

!!! HAPPY & PROSPEROUS 2005 TO ALL !!!
 
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:07:18 +1300, "Dingus"
<dingus@iniindabababa.co.zu> wrote:

The problem is this. The 'machine' is a US$0.3M piece of industrial plant,
not a PC, and has a Centronics printer port attached for use with a
centronics type printer. Practically all modern available printers are USB.
We would like to be able to run an 'off-the-shelf' USB printer from this
'machine'.

[snip]

Does your 'machine' have an operating system?

Then this might help...

http://www.kemtec.com/info%20files/DOSUSBprint.pdf

But why not just get a parallel port printer? They're still
available.

...Jim Thompson
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"Dingus" <dingus@iniindabababa.co.zu> schreef in bericht
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Anyone got ideas on this problem.....

I want to be able to use a USB printer on a machine that has a Centronics
printer output port.
The printer port on the machine is not a 25 pin parallel socket, it is a
Centronics socket.

The machine provides the option to select types of printers, eg: Epson,
B&W,
Color, IBM etc.

If anyone knows of a readily available piece of hardware, that would be
great. Otherwise a circuit or circuit ideas.

Thanks in advance,

Cheers.

!!! HAPPY & PROSPEROUS 2005 TO ALL !!!
The interface you want requires the building of a USB host. This can be done
and is done but AFAIK not for a printer interface. Cypress - for instance -
has the SL811SH which contains almost all of the hardware required. You have
to add a good micro and write some pretty special software.

Another solution is using not to old a PC running WIN98SE. You can use an
EEP printer port to interface with your computers Centronics port and a USB
interface for the printer. Nevertheless it also requires some special
software to be written.

Simplest solution is using another printer. Except for the cheapest ones,
most of the better printers still have a parallel interface.

petrus bitbyter
 
"Dingus" <dingus@iniindabababa.co.zu> writes:

The problem is this. The 'machine' is a US$0.3M piece of industrial plant,
not a PC, and has a Centronics printer port attached for use with a
centronics type printer. Practically all modern available printers are USB.
We would like to be able to run an 'off-the-shelf' USB printer from this
'machine'.
I don't have any solution.

You need is so rate that propalbly the cheapest and most
relaible solution would be to still find a printer that
has parallel port interface. Those exist still...
For example check laser printers from HP.


"Jerry G." <jerryg50@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:33glt5F3vmnrhU2@uni-berlin.de...
If your printer is a parallel port, go out and buy a parallel port card
for
your computer, open it up, and install the card. Converting USB to
parallel
is not a good idea. I found this type of conversion to not be reliable.
As
for building your own converter, this I have no idea of, or would even
bother to go that far.

The other alternative, which is more expensive is to put an Ethernet to
parallel converter on your computer network. Then you can have the printer
work as a network printer.

--

Jerry G.
=====

"Dingus" <dingus@iniindabababa.co.zu> wrote in message
news:fnDAd.3499$mo2.189375@news.xtra.co.nz...
Anyone got ideas on this problem.....

I want to be able to use a USB printer on a machine that has a Centronics
printer output port.
The printer port on the machine is not a 25 pin parallel socket, it is a
Centronics socket.

The machine provides the option to select types of printers, eg: Epson,
B&W,
Color, IBM etc.

If anyone knows of a readily available piece of hardware, that would be
great. Otherwise a circuit or circuit ideas.

Thanks in advance,

Cheers.

!!! HAPPY & PROSPEROUS 2005 TO ALL !!!
--
Tomi Engdahl (http://www.iki.fi/then/)
Take a look at my electronics web links and documents at
http://www.epanorama.net/
 
"JeffM" <jeffm_@email.com> schreef in bericht
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I want to be able to use a USB printer
on a machine that has a Centronics printer output port.
Dingus

Get thee to the local computer shop in the lovely land of Zu.
Standard product, probably find one for $9.95 (no-name whitebox).
Nicholas O. Lindan

Yup.
http://www.google.com/froogle?&q=parallel-to-usb+-usb-to-parallel+-usb-to-*-parallel
I did not check all of the converters mentioned but the ones I checked were
meant to connect a printer with a parallel interface to a computers USB
port. *Not* the other way around which is what the OP asked for.

petrus bitbyter
 
"petrus bitbyter" <p.kralt@reducespamforchello.nl> wrote

I did not check all of the converters mentioned but the ones I checked were
meant to connect a printer with a parallel interface to a computers USB
port. *Not* the other way around which is what the OP asked for.
To connect a USB printer to a computer w/o a USB port one adds a USB
card. The Centronics port on the computer is not used.

Getting the printer driver for a USB printer to suddenly start using the
Centronics port may be problematic.

--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics.
Remove spaces etc. to reply: n o lindan at net com dot com
psst.. want to buy an f-stop timer? nolindan.com/da/fstop/
 

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