Usb to parallel converter usb2lpt versions 2, 3, 4, 7 (High-Speed) Installation Manual

System requirements

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  PC or notebook with a free USB socket; maybe over an external USB hub
  
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  Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8
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  Parallel-port software with “well-behaved” accesses to parallel port, usually with a user-selectable port address
  

Windows 95 is not suitable. For Linux, someone should adopt (i.e. re-write) the driver.

For unknown reason there are some limitations when using USB2LPT on Windows XP or newer. These limitations are described below.

USB2LPT almost never work with software protection devices (“dongles”). The reason is that dongle driver software usually prevents trapping of parallel port accesses, to make cracking the dongle more difficult.