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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 via USB?
« on: March 21, 2006, 12:22:49 AM »
I have been using Mach3 for a couple of weeks and things are just great. Something new has some up though and I was hoping that someone here might have some advice.
The PC I've been running Mach3 from can't really be the final sollution. I have access to a really nice laptop that would be great, except of course, it doesn't have a parallel port. I have a usb to parallel adapter that may be part of the solution, but it has a centronics type end and will need an adapter. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this sort of thing. I know that these types of adapters often don't work for specific things. I have also found some PCMCIA parallel adapters but they're a bit pricey. I don't want to buy one as an experiment.
Any help would be really appreciated!
Thanks,
Greg
The PC I've been running Mach3 from can't really be the final sollution. I have access to a really nice laptop that would be great, except of course, it doesn't have a parallel port. I have a usb to parallel adapter that may be part of the solution, but it has a centronics type end and will need an adapter. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this sort of thing. I know that these types of adapters often don't work for specific things. I have also found some PCMCIA parallel adapters but they're a bit pricey. I don't want to buy one as an experiment.
Any help would be really appreciated!
Thanks,
Greg