Hi,
I looked around and found thism which *might* be the proper cable (under
SCSI cables no less):
http://www.computernyc.com/625pintocen2.html
There's a 3 foot cable as well:
http://www.computernyc.com/accessories.html
I think this is the correct cable. The Compaq site lists the LaserJet
2200dtn printer (I assume a pretty recent model) as having a IEEE-1284
complient parallel port, but according to
http://www.a2zcables.com/a2zcables.filereader?3d3b81710fbb0c84271c424d361d0689+EN/catalogs/1058
This spec seems to not only cover Centronics port types (there's
apparently also a 36-pin version), but also DB port types (like a PC
parallel port)
> discovered, much to my chagrin, that the newer HP printers only have a
> 25-pin parallel printer port instead of the original 50-pin. Does anyon,e
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