Title: These devices are not bidirectional
Product review: As a computer technician, even I wasn't able to get this to work. USB to parallel adapters are pretty much useless because they are not bidirectional. That means that it won't work with any type of modern printer, such as an HP Deskjet. It's not just Belkin, other types won't work either. They claim compatability with IEEE 1284 standards and some even claim to be bidirectional but are not. To make it work at all, you have to disable bidirectional support in Windows but if the HP software installation is run again it will fail when it trys to communicate with the printer. Also, Belkin has no useful tech support will not respond to questions in e-mail.
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