Usb parallel adaptor weird problem (pl2305)

[Karl F. Larsen]

Thorny wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:15:17 -0600, Karl F. Larsen posted:
>
>   
>>     I have a rather old Brother model HL-1440 and I have connected to it
>> with a parallel port plug for the past several years. But I bought a few
>> USB plugs at the Dollar Store for one dollar a piece. One of the plugs
>> had the normal USB on one end and a very small more square plug on the
>> other end.
>>
>>     To my great pleasure it fit the plug on the printer! So I unplugged
>> the big heavy parallel port cable and used the USB cable and told the
>> printer driver in Ubuntu to look for a USB port and it worked perfect in
>> every way.
>>
>>     You might look at the back of your printer :-)
>>
>>
>>     
> Karl, what you might be referring to is a USB "A" to "B" M/M cable if
> on that end it is sort of rectangular with a couple of rounded off corners
> at the top(best description I can come up with without a picture but USB
> printers and scanners often use them)
>
>
>   
    Yes that is the one. I got it by accident and was amazed when it worked!


Karl


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