LAVA COMPUTER Dual Parallel Interface Expansion Card for PCI

List Price: $50.99 Discount Price: $34.99

Features:

• Adds two 25-pin Enhanced Parallel Ports (EPPs) to any PCI-equipped PC.
• Up to 3x FASTER than standard ISA or motherboard EPP ports - supports transfer rates of up to 4.5 Mbps per port.
• Automatically selects next available IRQ and COM addresses.
• Easy Plug and Play installation - both parallel ports share one system IRQ.
• Backwards compatible with legacy parallel port peripherals.

Customer Reviews:

Be Sure to Get the CURRENT Hardware Version [Posted on 2008-03-28]
My recent purchase of this dual parallel card was returned as it was not the current hardware version. That may or may not be significant to you, but the sole reason for my purchasing this card now was that the older hardware version does NOT work with many new motherboards. Lava does not note the updated hardware in any way on its package, nor does Amazon. But the older hardware does not function with some newer motherboards.

That said, I have and have happily used for many years an older dual parallel card in an older PC. It provides 2 fully functional parallel ports. Once setup, I never had problems with it since in my older PC. That gave me THREE parallel ports for all the printers & scanners I cared to use.

If you're shopping for a parallel card today, you may want to lean toward a newer card by other manufacturers (e.g. SIIG) that use a PCIe (express) interface rather than the older PCI interface used by all of Lava's cards. No immediate functional difference, but several years from now you'd be more likely to be able to use it in your NEXT computer.

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