I just got a Lexmark 5700 printer which supposedly needs a IEEE-1284 printer cable (I tried it with a standard DB25 to Centronics cable off my dot-matrix and it worked fine.) My question comes from the fact that this printer is getting it's signals through the printer port on my DR scanner. Setup for this scanner requires the parallel port to be set in BIOS to ECP or EPP mode. Do these modes activate the bidirectional signals which the IEEE cable feeds to/from the printer? Will the printer port on the scanner be IEEE caspable? Printing speeds don't seem any faster with the IEEE cable than the standard printer cable. Documentation on these questions is really sparse in the scanner setup docs and the setup docs for the printer say nothing about setting the BIOS at all. ======================================================================= | labrat 'at' pobox 'dot' com | Just because you're paranoid doesn't | | | mean they're not out to get you | ======================================================================= PCBUILD maintains many useful files for download on our web site - visit our download page at: http://nospin.com/pc/files.html