USB printer to Parallel Port Print Server

[MinistrOfJustiz]

My sister bought a router with a built in print server, but the router only has a parallel connection. Her new printer is, of course, USB only. I've seen dozens of adapters to connect an old parallel port printer to a computer's USB port, but what about the other way?

Thanks for any help, folks.

 

[jpmkm]

Doesn't exist. If such a device did exist, it would most likely cost quite a bit more than just a dedicated USB print server.

 

[pawstar]

Nope ... there is no product like that ... it would be nearly impossible to pull of and would not be easily portable from one machine to the next if someone decided to design one. You have a slow 8 bit interface with come control lines that you would need to convert into fast serial which would create all sorts of problems and device incompatiblities + would require specialized drivers to boot

 

[MinistrOfJustiz]

That's what I thought, but I figured if such a bizarre adapter did exist somebody here would know about it! Thanks for confirming my advice to my sister, though. "Get a USB print server."