For some of our instruments at work, we print directly off of them to old fan-fold dot-matrix serial printers. For example, we have some intruments that measure the vapor pressure of liquids and print ...

Before 2000, desktop printers for business had one of two interfaces: serial and parallel. The type of interface dictated the type of cable you used to connect the printer to the PC and how fast the ...

A socket that connects to a serial interface (one bit following another over one line). Serial ports are widely used by sensors for data acquisition, and they were standard on early computers for ...

You can't daisy-chain parallel-port printers. If you've managed to get things plugged in, it's probably because you've stuck one printer cable into the serial port of the other printer. You'll need ...