Sabrent SBT-UPPC USB to Parallel 6-Foot Printer Cable
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Customer Review: Don't buy !!!
Summary: 1 Stars
This product is really not working with my printer. I have a POS system that has no parallel port attached. This Sabrient device just does not do anything good. Instead of creating a virtual LPT port(parallel port) it just kind of creating a printing support. It's not what you want I promise. Tried a lot of different drivers and nothing. Check something else. I had trouble with the serial port as well, but the serial to usb worked well, quick. It's not designed by Sabrient thow, It's made by TRENDnet. Very good product. It actually creates the port (COM). Hopefully this will help you to chose a good product. If there were a 0 stars I would of give that. DO NOT BUY SABRIENT !!!Customer Review: Just what i needed
Summary: 5 Stars
After purchasing a new HP laptop with Windows Vista, I needed a way to connect an old, reliable Epson Stylus Color 640 printer. This cable was just what I needed.
After months of trouble and the computer not recognizing my printer whenever I connected the two, and spending an hour each time on the problem before it would mysteriously start working, I found that I needed to have the Epson printer turned off before connecting it to the computer. This is something I do not have to do with my HP Officejet, so I did not originally consider that the problem. Since I've "discovered" this, it's worked perfectly and has been immediately recognized every time I've plugged it in.
Customer Review: Works as advertised for me...
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently upgraded to a motherboard that didn't come with an on-board parallel port. That was a slight problem since I use an old Apple LaserWriter Select 360 as my printer and still wanted to use it with this new motherboard. I was looking for a parallel-to-usb cable and came across this one and decided to try it out. Installation was a breeze. I plugged it into one of my usb ports and Windows XP Pro SP2 immediately recognized and installed the drivers for me. I then had to change the printer preference so that it would use the "usb port" instead of the usual LPT1 port for parallel port. I am happy to say that I can still use my trusty Apple LaserWriter with my Windows PC.Customer Review: Don't gamble on this
Summary: 1 Stars
Who knows why the people at Sabrent would create a so-called "adapter" cable that works with such a limited number of printers -- but they did.
My experience supports the advice of earlier reviewers who bought this cable, found it useless, then had to turn around and buy a Belkin adapter to get the job done. In this instance, the Sabrent failed to connect a Dell Latitude laptop to a 1200 Series Samsung laser printer. But the Belkin F5U002V1 from Amazon did the trick.
Turns out that if you surf the Web long enough you can find the limited list of printers this Sabrent is made to serve. It should not be this difficult! Ya live and learn.
Customer Review: Does not work well with Vista64
Summary: 1 Stars
Occasionally works with my Vista 64 system / HP LaserJet 4L. After first installing, it worked as expected. But after just about every reboot, the printer fails to work. Sometimes, it will start working if you re-install, but frustratingly, not always. The problem is compounded by having multiple users on the system. It wants to install a printer device (on a new virtual USB port) for each one.
So, the upshot is, unless you never reboot your system, this is a big pain to use. It gets 1 star because it did work (and still does, sometimes) and you can't really give a 0 star review here, but really for the frustration it should get 0.