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February 10th, 2006 13:00
XPS and Plotters
I noticed that on the back of the XPSs (and it seems other new Dells) that there is not a place to plug in a 25 (?) pin plotter cable. Did I miss something? Are those big cables a thing of the past? Thanks.
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Dev Mgr
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February 10th, 2006 13:00
If you need a parallel port, you could consider buying a PCI card with a parallel port, or buy a USB-to-Parallel converter cable (I used to use one for an old HP LJ Series 2+ (or something like that); it worked great, but not sure about how it would work with a plotter).
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February 10th, 2006 17:00
SR45
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February 10th, 2006 17:00
You can add pci, pci-express x16, and even a pci-express x1 card to the newer XPS systems. Which XPS system do you have ?
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xps600/en/SM/techov0.htm#wp1052309 XPS 600 motherboard
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xps400/sm/techov.htm#wp1053345 XPS 400 motherboard
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xps200/sm/techov1.htm#wp1052632 XPS 200 only has one pci-express x1 slot and no pci slots
Message Edited by SR45 on 02-10-2006 02:09 PM
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February 12th, 2006 17:00
My XPS Gen 3 has a parallel and serial port.
For a while I used my old parallel cable until I could get a USB cable for my printer that handles both.
USB is tons faster.
I was also upset when the game port was removed from computers.
But new USB controllers are better too.
If you have a printer that only accepts parallel, there is probably a newer USB printer that has better output faster and cheaper too.