Parallel to USB Adapter for a Scanner

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Tobawazi

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I know that parallel to usb adapter work well for printers, I have done extensive research and picked out a model for that purpose, but, there is little to no information about if a parallel to usb adapter will work with a scanner? (As murphys law would have it :mad: , the printer and scanner both have different types of parallel ports so experimentation with the adapter that i know will work with my printer is out of the question)

I have an older scanner that has a parallel port only and of course my new computer doesn't have a parallel port. Before I abandon a perfectly good scanner that does an excellent job, I was wondering if anyone had experimented with getting a scanner with only a parallel port to work with a USB to parallel adapter.

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Shouldn't be an issue for a lot of scanners to work with usb using an adapter but something to think about. A lot of older scanners that are parallell don't support windows xp. Drivers were never written. Same with some of the old school scsi ones. I have thrown out prob 5 or 6 scanners over the last few years because they didn't have drivers.
 
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