Hi! If your printer has USB, you could try a generic USB "printer port" driver as long as the printer still understands commands DOS apps can produce. Some just accept plain text, PDF or PostScript, which DOS apps can produce to some degree. If your printer only has Centronics, but your PC only has USB, you can get an adapter cable. You cannot get an adapter cable for the other direction as far as I know. But, as others have said, you can get a "print server" adapter which basically is a small box with a network port as input and a printer port or USB port as output. Then you can use standard DOS network printing tools and standard DOS network drivers to print to your USB or centronics printer, which may actually be EASIER than using USB drivers for DOS. Note that DOS networking is only available for wired LAN, not for WIFI! However, you can also get a bridge box which lets you connect your PC using a LAN cable to the box and then the box connects you further to a WIFI. Regards, Eric
So I understand that I am using a usb->Centronics parallel adapter. Which works fin in Windows 10.
Those are for Centronics printers and USB PC. You can use them with DOS USB drivers, but this is as complicated as using USB printers with DOS USB drivers. Better avoid it.
However where can I find a more technical reference of talking to the CH341A IC. There is a datasheet but that is limited more or les to the electronics. The drivers are apparently only for the windows systems.
You do not want to build your own hardware for this ;-) _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
