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How far can you run parallel port cables?
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How far can you run serial or parallel cables? E.g. can I have a printer, connected with a 5m parallel cable to a PC? Or will there be a problem with delay or something? []s -- © Chaos Master. |"These wounds won't seem to heal My Evanescence HP is at: | This pain is just too real http://marreka.no-ip.com | There's just too much that time can't erase" (most often offline... ) | -- Evanescence, "My Immortal" |
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"Chaos Master" wrote in message
t... Hello people. How far can you run serial or parallel cables? E.g. can I have a printer, connected with a 5m parallel cable to a PC? Or will there be a problem with delay or something? []s Five metres is not a problem for either serial or parallel. For anything more than that I'd be looking to good quality, shielded cable, however. Ken |
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"Ken Taylor" wrote in message ... "Chaos Master" wrote in message t... Hello people. How far can you run serial or parallel cables? E.g. can I have a printer, connected with a 5m parallel cable to a PC? Or will there be a problem with delay or something? []s Five metres is not a problem for either serial or parallel. For anything more than that I'd be looking to good quality, shielded cable, however. Ken You only guessed didn't you. The Specs for parallel say 2 metres and for RS 232 50 metres. After that they may work but don't expect much support. -- John G Wot's Your Real Problem? |
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exerpt from http://www.duxcw.com/faq/print/print.htm:
Q. What is the "specified" maximum length of a parallel printer cable for a PC? A. There are two kinds widely used parallel port printer cables for PCs. The old "standard" IBM Printer cable and the newer IEEE 1284 bi-directional cable commonly sold today. The old IBM printer cable was a rather loose standard having its roots with cables originally designed for Centronics printers. It was uni-directional from the PC to the printer and had a 25-pin male DB25 connector at one end and a 36-conductor male Centronics connector at the other end. The "standard-issue" cable was six feet. The maximum cable length was commonly stated as 15 feet. I have operated printers with old 20-foot IBM PC cables and some, not many, PC/printer combinations will work with a quality 25-foot cable. There are devices which can extend this length significantly. Commonly available IEEE 1284 cables have a 1284 Type A, 25-pin male DB25 connector at one end and either the older 1284 Type B, 36-conducor male Centronics connector or the newer 1284 Type C, 36-conductor Mini-Centronics connector at the other end and are available in 6, 10, 15, 20, and 30 ft lenghts. The specification also calls for various cable configurations with different connector genders. The maximum specified length of a IEEE 1284 cable cable is 10 Meters (approx. 30 feet) for data transfers at rates up to 2 Mhz (of course, this maximum requires that the ports at both ends of the cable meet the IEEE 1284 spec as well as the cable). IEEE 1284 cables should work with older IBM printer ports (SPP = Standard Printer Port) and uni-directional printers. hope this helps regards Jeff "Chaos Master" schreef in bericht t... Hello people. How far can you run serial or parallel cables? E.g. can I have a printer, connected with a 5m parallel cable to a PC? Or will there be a problem with delay or something? []s -- © Chaos Master. |"These wounds won't seem to heal My Evanescence HP is at: | This pain is just too real http://marreka.no-ip.com | There's just too much that time can't erase" (most often offline... ) | -- Evanescence, "My Immortal" |
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"Chaos Master" wrote in message t... Hello people. How far can you run serial or parallel cables? E.g. can I have a printer, connected with a 5m parallel cable to a PC? Or will there be a problem with delay or something? Parallel is limited by the cable capacitance. You can find printer cables up to 25 feet or 7.6M. Serial can be run for very long distances depending on the bit rate. For 9600 bps, it should work for 150 feet or 45m. Ask this in the more appropriate newsgroups comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc or similar. []s -- © Chaos Master. |
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"John G" wrote in message ... "Ken Taylor" wrote in message ... "Chaos Master" wrote in message t... Hello people. How far can you run serial or parallel cables? E.g. can I have a printer, connected with a 5m parallel cable to a PC? Or will there be a problem with delay or something? []s Five metres is not a problem for either serial or parallel. For anything more than that I'd be looking to good quality, shielded cable, however. Ken You only guessed didn't you. The Specs for parallel say 2 metres and for RS 232 50 metres. No, it is not. For serial, see URL http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/RS-232_specs.html For parallel IEEE1284: Specifications IEEE1284 Support Maximum Cable Distance: 5 meters (or 16.5 feet) Maximum Data Transfer Rate: 2MBytes / sec. ... etc. After that they may work but don't expect much support. -- John G |
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"John G" wrote in message ...
"Ken Taylor" wrote in message ... "Chaos Master" wrote in message t... Hello people. How far can you run serial or parallel cables? E.g. can I have a printer, connected with a 5m parallel cable to a PC? Or will there be a problem with delay or something? []s Five metres is not a problem for either serial or parallel. For anything more than that I'd be looking to good quality, shielded cable, however. Ken You only guessed didn't you. The Specs for parallel say 2 metres and for RS 232 50 metres. After that they may work but don't expect much support. I ran 20-foot priter cables without any problems. They're cheap. just a fewe dollar more than the standard 6-foot ones, just give them a try. Otherwise, there are sets of connectors for paralle ports that allow you to run normal phone cable between PCs and printers over much longer distances, $30 or so for a kit. Ultimately, get something like JetDirect and use ethernet, but rather more expensive unless it's already built in to the printer. |
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"John G" wrote in message
... "Ken Taylor" wrote in message ... "Chaos Master" wrote in message t... Hello people. How far can you run serial or parallel cables? E.g. can I have a printer, connected with a 5m parallel cable to a PC? Or will there be a problem with delay or something? []s Five metres is not a problem for either serial or parallel. For anything more than that I'd be looking to good quality, shielded cable, however. Ken You only guessed didn't you. The Specs for parallel say 2 metres and for RS 232 50 metres. After that they may work but don't expect much support. -- John G Wot's Your Real Problem? On the basis that I've run, and seen it done by others, to 5 metres without trouble. So yes, I didn't look it up, but it'll work, although maybe, as you imply, by the grace of God. Ken |
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Generally 15ft but I have seen some up to 25FT. with a parallel port buffer
you can go further. Dan "Chaos Master" wrote in message t... Hello people. How far can you run serial or parallel cables? E.g. can I have a printer, connected with a 5m parallel cable to a PC? Or will there be a problem with delay or something? []s -- © Chaos Master. |"These wounds won't seem to heal My Evanescence HP is at: | This pain is just too real http://marreka.no-ip.com | There's just too much that time can't erase" (most often offline... ) | -- Evanescence, "My Immortal" |
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exerpt from http://www.duxcw.com/faq/print/print.htm: Q. What is the "specified" maximum length of a parallel printer cable for a PC? [snip] Thanks for the info. []s -- © Chaos Master. |"These wounds won't seem to heal Posting from Brazil. | This pain is just too real http://marreka.no-ip.com | There's just too much that time can't erase" (most often offline... ) | -- Evanescence, "My Immortal" |
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