SABRENT USB to Parallel IEEE 1284 Printer Cable Adapter (CB-CN36)

Used this to connect a very old HP LaserJet 4M. The old cable just stopped working, probably got damaged by my movers, but it appeared to be fine. The print job would act like it was working, but the printer would just flash and then nothing would happen. This cable solved the problem. Works just like it should. No more print issues. Quality is good.

Quality cable, works well!

Works great 👍

I bought this USB to Parallel cable in hopes it would work with my ALPS MD-1300 printer. Unfortunately it does not. The overall construction of the cable looks to be very good, the tech support did try a little to help my situation and that is why I gave this a 4 star rating. The computer sees the cable just fine, but when you connect the cable to the printer, it starts to make a grinding noise and then errors out. I have another computer and cable that the printer works perfect on so I know it is this cable. Sorry ALPS printer users - this cable is not for us.

Bad cable, out of the box. Box appeared to be a re-packaged item. Ordered another one anyway, the 2nd one worked just fine. Will NOT be sending the bad one back, this will save someone future problems. Cost of doing business in an on-line market, in today's world I guess....

Very good and the cable is really long, perfect for my business analog printers

This cable may or may not work for you, but it's not the cable's fault. My old HP LaserJet 4, looks and works like brand new, but I haven't used it for a while since newer computers have no printer port. I needed a printer for shipping labels in a separate location in my home and when I saw this cable I thought my problem was solved, but my computer, an HP laptop, with Windows 10 Pro, didn't even recognize anything had been plugged in when I connected it. Before troubleshooting, I ordered another cable like this from another company and the same thing happened so I decided to look further. I have several computers so I connected another laptop with a dual boot installation, Windows 7 home and Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS and it works with both. I had to use the manual setup because it isn't recognized like USB printers usually are. Connect the printer to the laptop and click add printer. Windows 7 wants to scan for a printer which it won't find, but click on the line saying yours isn't in the list. Choose local printer, then choose the port. Scroll down the list provided and you'll see a USB virtual printer port, select that. Then choose your make and model, in my case, the HP LaserJet 4. It will load the driver, ask if you want a test page, which you can print to confirm, and you're done. Works great. Linux is also easy. Click add printer, select the USB port, select the make and model of the printer, print a test page. Works great. You're done. Windows 10 is another story. In my case, there are no current drivers for the LaserJet 4. You can go through the same procedure, click add local printer, there's a USB port option, but if you have an old HP printer like, mine, when you select HP, the long list of models presented does not include a lot of very popular, but old models, like my LaserJet 4. Looking around on the web, lots of sites say they have a driver, but they look a little sketchy to me, you can try those at your own risk. So, bottom line, cable does what it's supposed to do as long as your operating system has a driver. If it's the latest update of Windows 10, there are a lot of old printers that are no longer supported. Since I have one computer where it does work, I stopped investigating. There might be a way to get Windows 10 on board, but it's not plug and play.

I easily installed my Laserjet 4100 using the instructions provided by "dv" in these user comments. If dv's review is not one of the first reviews, then search in these reviews for "installation guide". (Amazon primarily lists reviews by recentness, and only secondarily by quality {stars}, so excellent reviews are quickly buried). dv's review is excellent, thank him with a thumbs up. > The product is just the cable in a cardboard box, no documentation. > The cable length is unspecified in the Amazon Listing, but was about 6' long. That might not be a good thing. Regardless of the driver I use, I occasionally get garbles (a symbol or letter, substituted for the correct letter). I think that it is because the cable is too thin and is unshielded -- in which case, a shorter cable may have been better. I tried hanging the cable from the wall behind my computer to physically isolate the cable from any other computer cables, and that seemed to reduce the rate of garbling. > Worked well for me. My ancient Laserjet 4100 installed quickly and easily on my Windows 11 computer. Now, if I can just find another toner cartridge when this one runs out. > I received no prompt for the installation of the USB cable, and so, just skipped that step. > CAVEAT, I could only install the Postscript driver "HP LaserJet 4100 Series PS Class Driver" which works well even for non-postscript documents. However, the non-postscript "Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 4100 series" driver "magically" showed up, but the output is more garbled that typical of the postscript driver. Many pages print out perfectly, but the garbled pages are insidious --- they usually look fine at first glance, but when you actually try to read the page, the garbles show up. > The one-star off is for the lack of documentation: i.e., no specification of the cable length, and no instructions; at least another star off for the garbles (presumably caused by insufficient shielding) >Negative Reviews I was concerned by the negative reviews. But, in reading several dozen, it appears that all, or nearly all, who did not succeed were trying to use the cable to adapt equipment other than ordinary computer printers.

usei o produto para ativar uma roland cx24 antiga e funcionou maravilhosamente bem

Excelente. Funciona de maravilla mejor que el mismo producto en el mercado.

Fonctionne super bien plug and play !

A permis d'utiliser une ancienne imprimante Brother à port parallèle via un port USB d'un PC sous Windows 7.

EL producto llegó correctamente. La longitud del cable es aceptable. Además, venía con un alargador USB que no he necesitado usar. Funciona a la perfección. Probada con una impresora de tickets de EPSON.