Parallel port printing....

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jtr8178

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I have an industrial piece of equipment that leads to a control box. From that control box, there is a serial cable that leads to the computer, which has the software on it for viewing data, printing reports, etc...

There is a 2nd cable that comes out of this control box that has 7 wires in it, but it goes to a parallel port plug. This plugs into a printer, which is a special printer that takes paper like a credit card terminal.

We want to print to file instead of this antiquated printer. The vendor doesn't support this and is zero help. My thoughts are to purchase a parallel card for a computer, and try to install some type of software that acts like a parallel printer... has anyone ever does anything like this before? I'm not sure if that will even work, or if there is a different solution I should look at.

Any help/ideas/guidance would be appreciated, thanks!
 
need more information
What is the "control box"?
You can also try create a logical printer mapped to FILE: (Print to File).
 
Here is the control box & software: http://www.alemite.com/catalog/details.aspx?identifier=fluidman_accuguardpc

If I disconnect the cable coming from the control box to the parallel port printer, the program tells me that it can't see the printer and nothing prints ... So I've ordered a parallel cable splitter, and I'm going to try and split the incoming cable and see if it will dual print -- one to the normal printer, one to something else that I can work with.
 
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