Don't use COM ports, just get an extra LPT port for the system that the printers are connected to. Connect them both up at the same time, create a share for each (say \\printserver\dotmatrix and ...

For portable-sensing and data- acquisition applications, a laptop computer and its parallel port (LPT) make good bedfellows. Yet in the effort to extend battery life, many microprocessors and entire ...

The oscilloscope utilizes the SPP or EPP parallel port LPT1 for reading the data from ADC0820 (TLC0820). The program will automatically switch the LPT1 in byte mode or normal mode if the LPT is an ECP ...

Hello all,<P>Something has gone screwy with my printer. I have a new computer from Dell (a replacement to our old non-functioning one) that has Windows XP preloaded on it. (I'm finding this to be a ...

We see it all the time, a post based on an Arduino board with multiple comments calling it overkill. How exactly should you control your homemade peripherals if you’re not using a microcontroller (uC) ...