Ah the old discontinued printers of HP. You are in luck actually. That thing
already has usb-out somewhere on it. All you need is a usb cable with the
Type A male connector and the Type A female on the other end. I bet you got
one laying around somewhere. I used the one that came with my scanner to
plug my HP up to my usb 2 port on the computer. Anyway, the usb cable is
more cheap than the parallel adapter.

Find your connection on that printer first to make sure I am not imagining
things. It might be right above the parallel connection. I have to life a
little tray on mine to actually see it.


<casteele95thbgheavy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Have an HP LaserJet 4L that I now wish to connect to the USB on my
> laptop. Is it simply a matter of buying a Parallel-to-USB cable, or is
> it more complicated than that? (The HP book on the printer has a
> page on something it calls the Bi-Tronics Paralles Interface ??)
>
> Christopher
>