William R. Walsh m wrote:

The HP has a 25 pin male connector, and the Netgear has a 36 pin
Centronics connector -- quite different.

Hmmm...the HP printer sounds as though it is a serial printer?

Probably not. The few HP printers that have come with serial ports in
recent years would more likely use a DB9.

HP did use high-density parallel cable connectors that were roughly the
size of a DB25 on some printers, like the LJ1100.

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Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA