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 ...

On my main computer, I'd like to have 2 printers (since I already have them) but they are both parallel and I only have 1 motherboard header for parallel ...

Many older printers rely on a large 25-pin parallel cable connection to communicate with your computer hardware. The parallel connection was the original form of communication between printers and ...

Now, inside computers, we’re replacing parallel connections to disk drives and arrays, both SCSI and Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA), with a new serial architecture called Serial Attached ...

I did some searching, but didn't really find an answer. Would there be a noticable speed advantage to using the USB hookup instead of Parallel? The printer I'm buying doesn't come with a USB cable ...