Kay,
 there is no cable or adapter for your problem, however many printers have both USB and parallel
connections but only supply a USB cable. It is up to the user to purchase the parallel cable.
If you are sure yours doesn't have the parallel socket, a PCI/USB card is the answer providing your 
operating system supports USB, also some older computers will not support it.
HTH,
Hal Seabolt

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kay Huff<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 2:18 PM
  Subject: [PCBUILD] USB converter question


  I have a USB printer that I would like to run with an older computer
  that only has a parallel port.

  I've looked around and see there are USB to Parallel cables, but they
  all say, so you can use a parallel printer on a USB port.  This is
  probably a stupid question, but does it work the other way around, or is
  this not a possibility?

  TIA,K

  Kay Huff
  USA/IL
  mailto:  [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

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