[bcab] Re: help needed obtaining a serial to USB connectivity cable

Hi Alexander,

It is worth checking whether your printer cable is designed to plug in
to a serial or lpt port.

Older printers may have used the RS232 port while most printers produced
immediately prior to USB used the lpt port.

An RS232 cable usually had a female plub while lpt cables usually had a
male plub.

If your cable is in fact designed for an lpt port, you will need a
different converter.

If memory serves, the lpt specification is 1284.

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-----Original Message-----
From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Alexander Shannon
Sent: 23 March 2009 21:17
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bcab] help needed obtaining a serial to USB connectivity cable


Hi all,

I am wanting to connect my Canon BJC85 printer to my .
However, the printer cable has a serial connection for which
I have a cable, but the cable ends in a Mail socket and my
computer does not have any serial ports, (all ports on this
machine are USB), so I am wondering if anyone can give me
any advice on where I might be able to obtain a cable with a
female serial socket at one end and the correct connection
for a USB port at the other.

Thank you in advance for any help, although I would like to
apologise to the moderators of both the lists to which I am
sending this message, as, although I am not cross posting
this message, I am intending to send it to both the BCAB and
Access-uk lists in order to obtain advice from as many
people as possible.


Alexander Shannon


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