- StarTech 6ft. (1.8m) USB to Parallel Port Adapter, IEEE-1284 (ICUSB1284) | Male/Male, USB to Centronics Cable

Worked perfectly for my set up. I have windows xp on a 22 year old Dell Gen 4 computer. I use it with 2002 Autocad. I also have old HP 430 D large format printer attached that is probably as old as the computer. All works well. I came across another HP430 that needed repairs and some love. After repairs the printer would start a print well then go all black. I bought this new Star Tech cable and I turned every piece of equipment off and plugged in the Star Tech cable and then turned on the printer first. Second after the printer had done all of its checks and was waiting, I booted the computer and the add new hardware wizard opened and I followed my install for the printer and all works well. Bottomline, the cable was plug and play for me. I had to install my printer but that was no big deal.

Works great for my older equipment. It got me back up & running!!

Installed it on a new MB installation that did not have a printer port. The printer is an HP Deskjet 622 and it was recognized immediately by my new 64 bit Win 7 installation. Unfortunately the drivers for the 64 bit version of Win 7 Pro were broken - an HP or Windows thing, not a problem with the cable & its driver. After searching the web for the fix I found it, installed the new HP drivers and now it works perfectly. The bonus for me is that the 10' cable gives me the extra length to make a comfortable built in installation. I'd certainly recommend it.

Good little cable. Decent deal.

I bought this to go on an older HP laser printer when I bought a new computer that didn't have a parallel printer port, but after trying a name brand USB to Parallel cable it didn't work. I was scratching my brain when the "better" cable failed so I searched the internet for answers as to how to get my older printer to work with my newer computer. What I discovered was my particular printer will not respond with better cables but with generic cables it would? I really like my printer and didn't want to throw out a perfectly good high quality laser printer just because it was 15 years old, so I thought what the heck I"ll try the generic cable and if it doesn't work send it back...the darn thing worked! I don't understand why a generic cable worked when a name brand wouldn't, but it works so I don't care!!

I finally had time to try this, long after I bought it, and it worked great. I can use my 1990s dot matrix printer with a modern laptop running Linux (debian). Plug and play... well, OK, had to figure out a few things in Linux, but it really was not hard to get this working. In a more common environment it's probably even easier. If you have the niche need for this product, I can recommend it without hesitation.

Works like a champ with my Zebra / UPS Thermal 2542 printer that has a parallel port (and serial). The serial port worked fine in UPS, but in third party shipping apps, that use a PDF it was very slow to print the image via the serial port. Plugged this in to the PC, the other end to the parallel port of the thermal printer, changed the port setting of the printer to USB001, and prints instantly. Turns my 10 year old+ thermal printer into a super fast USB version for the price of a cable.

Did not work for me. The driver for the adapter installed automatically (Windows 7, 64bit). I had the correct printer driver installed (HP LaserJet III). I used Windows' "Add a Printer" and connected to the USB "virtual printer port" (tried every USB port available). But when I tried to print, docs just sat in the print queue, no indication data ever tried to go to the printer. I've tried & tried & tried many times; read every review for steps taken by others with various laser jets and/or Win 7 PCs; tried different orders for the steps; rebooted MANY times; found a PDF on the StarTech Web site (that doesn't seem to apply to Win 7!) and did things in the order specified there; I cleared all drivers and re-installed drivers; I completely deleted all printers (using MMC) & started from scratch... Still no luck. I tried on a different Windows 7 PC that has USB ports and no parallel port. Nope. Still no luck. The printer works fine with a Win XP machine that has a parallel port, but nothing happens with this parallel-to-USB cable, even with the native driver that came with Windows XP and has been used for years with this printer (via parallel port). After many days (over several weeks) of this, I'm thinking my StarTech cable is bad, but I see no way to tell if it's the cable. ---- Update ---- I contacted StarTech customer support about this. The only way to tell if this particular cable is bad is to try it on another parallel printer known to work with their cable, but I don't have other printers, so there's no way to know. They suggested I try the generic/text only driver (and other possible drivers) with my printer, which I did, but it still wouldn't work. Through the course of several days and several e-mails back & forth, testing with various PCs, Windows 7 and Windows XP, various drivers, etc., I learned from StarTech that this cable does not work with all printers and drivers, and maybe that's my problem. "It could be that this particular printer or driver is not compatible with the Prolific chipset used in the ICUSB1284." They didn't tell me how to know if it is supposed to work with my printer/driver. But I don't think they make it clear in the description that it might now work with all printers/drivers. So, I guess it's a gamble. Still unknown if my problem is a defective cable or just "unsupported" printer. Unfortunately, by the time I got to this point, it was too late to return this cable to Amazon.

Depuis septembre 2025 mon imprimante laser multifonction MFC9880 de Brother de 2003 ne fonctionnait en réseau plus suite aux mises à jour de W10 et w11. Et bien la solution de contournement a été de basculer en le LPT en USB avec ce câble adaptateur "StarTech" pour la fonction imprimante seule. Le câble de 3m est pour moi suffisant. Pour une reconnaissance sur W11 25H2, il faut désactiver l'intégrité de la mémoire (sécurité Windows). Après cela fonctionne parfaitement sur W11. Pour les autres fonctions (scanner), dispo sur un port USB de l'imprimante MFC9880, j'ai pris sur Amazon des câbles USB B - USB A de chez "Thzzhnno" de 3m (Référence constructeur : TC-405-3.0M) qui sont de très bonne qualité (souplesse, anti vrille). Ils sont également opérationnels sur imprimante Brother MFC J6520DW et scanner Epson V200.

mide 3 metros, el unico que he encontrado de mas de 1,5m. Funciona perfectamente con un plotter HP

Funzionale. Forse il cavo di 3 mt è un po' corto per un utilizzo medio.

Il cavo è di buona fattura

Resultó muy útil. Bien embalado y buena conexión sin necesitar instalación de ningún tipo.