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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by simeon[/i] [br]you can use a usb port provided the usb lpt is addressed as its own device by an arbitor bridge joining the usb device to a port address like lpt 1 or 2 etc cheep leeds offer 'usb printer support' ...nothing in the right address range ...! there is one bridge cable i found that can run usb to lpt arbitor however it also has to have its own hardware to work as a standard lpt bi-dir port so usb can be done with these programmers {i do it} but it costs you for stuff to do it mine is a trust product there is a range of these on there support site cost was about £20 uk 'usb to true lpt' is the search string or 'usb to true parallel port' h**p://www.cooldrives.com/software-dongle-lpt-pcmcia.html h**p://support.microsoft.com/kb/839013/en-us use this to connect some 'most' usb printer support types to a physical address range app can use like the crap front end for willem with the ' usb printer support 'driver you treat it exactly as a normal lpt however you 'print' the file to a different bound location as a held handshake {on 'do it' off} instead of normal solid bound port linking {always on till its off} [/quote]    Insert an Image File Check here to include your profile signature.