If your small business is typical, you want to get the longest lifespan possible from your tech investment, and therefore you may have an older dot-matrix or laser printer with a parallel port that ...

QWhen I connect my printer through a parallel-port Iomega Zip drive, I get too many overrun messages from that HP 4. AThe signals coursing through the parallel-port cable are bumping into each other.

Older printers connect to computers via a parallel cable. For the past several years, the USB connection has replaced the parallel connection for the vast majority of printers. Newer computers often ...