Parallel Printer Cable Connectors

This cable adapter has a standard type a usb plug.

Parallel printer cable connectors.

Mac pc or bluetooth adapters. Most printers made before the emergence of usb had 36 pin centronics adapters. The usb to db25 adapter provides you with an external db25 female plug and play connection for use with computers notebooks and handheld computing devices that support usb. Product title sabrent usb to parallel ieee 1284 printer cable adap.

Connectors on the opposite end of a parallel cable though can vary depending on the type of external device to which the cable connects. In the case of usb cables almost all printing devices have female connectors but use plugs with different shapes. Sabrent 6ft usb 2 0 to db25f parallel printer cable usb db25f type. A flat type a plug on the computer and a square type b plug on the printer.

A male connector with 25 pins and a centronics connector with a micro ribbon plug. Ugreen usb to db25 parallel printer cable adapter male to female connector ieee 1284 converter for laptop desktop pc supports windows mac os linux 6ft 4 3 out of 5 stars 358 11 99 11. Free shipping on printer cables designed for the devices you use most. Vendors soon released printers compatible with both standard centronics and the ibm implementation.

C2g usb to parallel printer cable db25 adapter connects printers to computer usb ports 6ft cable with molded connectors for durability 16899 by c2g 13 63 13. Ibm standardized the parallel cable with a db25f connector on the pc side and the 36 pin centronics connector on the printer side. If you have a printer that was built in the late 1990s back to the 1970s it s probably using the parallel cable to connect to your pc. The cn36 male connector is on the right.

The original ibm parallel printer adapter for the ibm pc was designed to support 8 bit data bidirectionally in 1981. Most parallel versions have a db25 plug.