do people even use these any more??

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printer/parallel splitter switch:D
 
porterjw

porterjw

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OMG a switcher! Woot! Haven't seen those in use in a loooong time :) The old printer ports though I see occasionally, believe it or not, but only on very specific systems.
 
patrickv

patrickv

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well Parallel for printers is still in use these days, not all printers come with usb cables and we often use parallel :(
 
patrickv

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INTELCRAZY said:
Isn't parallel still used on like dot-matrix and some high-range laser printers?
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yup, some Epson series, we have em here, am tired of even looking at those printers, it soars my eyes :eek:
and it's a pain to take em apart to service.
Some hardware will be around for a veryyyy long time :p
 
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patrickv said:
yup, some Epson series, we have em here, am tired of even looking at those printers, it soars my eyes :eek:
and it's a pain to take em apart to service.
Some hardware will be around for a veryyyy long time :p
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I hate printers, I won't even fix mine at home, if it screws up.. I would just rather to Walmart and buy another Lexmark AIO for ~$30... I cannot fix them, they are just a regular pain in the arse. Countless times have I had ppl ask about fixing a printer. I had a call to fix a Lexmark X74's power supply cable, it had melted itself.. I went and bought one of those Lexmark 2300's for sale at Walmart and installed that for the business. They thought I had fixed it and I charged $40, it was $30 for the new printer, I just took the $10 profit and forgot about it, just out of my hatred for printer repair. They walked in the next morning and called me, thanking me and telling me I was the one and only for them from now on:rolleyes:
 
tlarkin

tlarkin

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All high end printers are network printers for the most part. Plotters, wide format poster printers, etc. The other option is USB. Parallel ports have a super slow bandwidth (like 1.5mb) and are pretty much obsolete.

Gigabit NICs are the way to go now for printers.
 
tlarkin

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zaroba said:
the grocery store i worked at a year ago had one of those.
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grocery stores use all legacy printers, like old dot matrix printers. New dot matrix printers come with USB support. It is also ungodly cheap, that is why they use it.

I have a parallel printer somewhere still, I need to throw it away.
 
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zaroba

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well yea :p

many businesses still use older stuff. simply due to the fact that most businesses don't see the need to upgrade unless absolutely necessary due to overall costs.
 
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