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The ins and outs of USB (IBM developerWorks)

The ins and outs of USB (IBM developerWorks)

Posted Apr 29, 2005 23:49 UTC (Fri) by wildpossum (guest, #17744)
In reply to: The ins and outs of USB (IBM developerWorks) by beejaybee
Parent article: The ins and outs of USB (IBM developerWorks)

>I don't see any performance benefit in USB over parallel ports for printers, >either. Meanwhile parallel port connectors are solid and reliable, USB >connectors aren't.

You haven't tried to send a multi-megabyte PostScript file to a printer over a parallel port then. I'd prefer an Ethernet internet on my printer but I'll settle for USB 2.0.


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