new mobo doesn't have printer port

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are there any adapters for the printer port cable?

 

[Zepper]

There are quite a few PCI parallel port adapter cards out there - if your new mobo also lacks serial ports (RS-232), then you might as well get a card with a couple of those on it too. That won't cost much more and you can set the serial ports to Disabled until you need them. These are often called multiport I/O cards and can be had with game and hard drive ports on them as well as serial and parallel.
. But you do want to be sure of what you use it for. If it is for general windows printing from current Win based software, then a card should work fine. But old DOS or early Win software may not support the strange IRQs that can be assigned to the card. So if you are trying to support some old DOS or proprietary software with printing, you may be stuck with using a mobo that has integrated ports that uses the old standard ports addressing. There are also parallel to USB adapter cables out there, but those are even more iffy than a PCI card, but I bought a cheap one and was able to run my old Xerox inkjet with it when my integrated parallel port went TU. Just make sure that whatever you do supports your applications. IMO, the Egg charges excessive shipping on these cards, so there should be lots of places that beat them on the bottom line.
. And I recommend avoiding Kouwell or Koutech brand add-on cards from my personal experience with them. Avoid Startech cards as well as they are just steeply marked up, rebadged, generic cards (often rebadged Koutech cards). Lava makes some really nice I/O cards, but they are made in Canada thus pricey, but if you want the best, theirs are probably it.
. But they share the same drawback as any PCI ports card in that they generally don't use the early serial and parallel IRQs as those generally require an ISA type bus connection where IRQs 3, 4, 5 and 7 are hardwired to the slot. A large part of the reason the legacy ports are going away is so they can drop the vestigial ISA bus from the design.

.bh.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

dude, sweet, thanks!