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The document discusses the parallel port, primarily used for connecting printers to PCs, highlighting its programming capabilities for device control and data transfer. It explains the advantages of parallel ports over serial ports, including faster data transmission, while noting the disadvantage of requiring more transmission lines, making them unsuitable for long-distance communication. The document also details the pin structure of D-25 and Centronics connectors used in parallel port connections.

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Parallel Port Imp

The document discusses the parallel port, primarily used for connecting printers to PCs, highlighting its programming capabilities for device control and data transfer. It explains the advantages of parallel ports over serial ports, including faster data transmission, while noting the disadvantage of requiring more transmission lines, making them unsuitable for long-distance communication. The document also details the pin structure of D-25 and Centronics connectors used in parallel port connections.

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Parallel port is a very commonly known port, widely used to connect the printer to the PC.

If you see backside of


your computer, there will be a port having 25 pins with a small symbol like this: . That port is known as LPT port
or printer port. We can program this port for device control and data transfer. In this article, we will learn basics of
parallel port and programming the parallel port.

Parallel port basics:

In computers, ports are used mainly for two reasons: Device control and communication. We can program
PC's Parallel ports for both. Parallel ports are mainly meant for connecting the printer to the PC. But we can program
this port for many more applications beyond that.

Parallel ports are easy to program and faster compared to the serial ports. But main disadvantage is it needs
more number of transmission lines. Because of this reason parallel ports are not used in long distance
communications. Let us know the basic difference between working of parallel port and serial port. In serial ports,
there will be two data lines: One transmission and one receive line. To send a data in serial port, it has to be sent one
bit after another with some extra bits like start bit, stop bit and parity bit to detect errors. But in parallel port, all the 8
bits of a byte will be sent to the port at a time and a indication will be sent in another line. There will be some data
lines, some control and some handshaking lines in parallel port. If three bytes of data 01000101 10011100 10110011
is to be sent to the port, following figures will explain how they are sent to the serial and parallel ports respectively.
We can understand why parallel port communication is faster compared to that of serial.

Parallel port basics:

In computers, ports are used mainly for two reasons: Device control and communication. We can program
PC's Parallel ports for both. Parallel ports are mainly meant for connecting the printer to the PC. But we can program
this port for many more applications beyond that.

Parallel ports are easy to program and faster compared to the serial ports. But main disadvantage is it needs
more number of transmission lines. Because of this reason parallel ports are not used in long distance
communications. Let us know the basic difference between working of parallel port and serial port. In serial ports,
there will be two data lines: One transmission and one receive line. To send a data in serial port, it has to be sent one
bit after another with some extra bits like start bit, stop bit and parity bit to detect errors. But in parallel port, all the 8
bits of a byte will be sent to the port at a time and a indication will be sent in another line. There will be some data
lines, some control and some handshaking lines in parallel port. If three bytes of data 01000101 10011100 10110011
is to be sent to the port, following figures will explain how they are sent to the serial and parallel ports respectively.
We can understand why parallel port communication is faster compared to that of serial.

In the PC there will be D-25 type of female connector having 25 pins and in the printer, there will be a 36-pin
Centronics connector. Connecting cable will combine these connecter using following convention. Pin structure of D-
25 and Centronics connecters are explained bellow.

Centronics 36 Pin
D25- Pin Number Function
Number
1 1 Strobe
2 to 9 2 to 9 Data Lines
10 10 Acknowledgement
11 11 Busy
12 12 Out of Paper
13 13 Select
14 14 Auto feed
15 15, 32 Error

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