PCIe Combo Serial Parallel Expansion Card PCI Express to Printer LPT Port RS232 Com Port Adapter IEEE 1284 Controller Card WCH382 Chip for Desktop PC Windows 10 with Low Bracket

A customer had his old computer died. It ran a laser engraver and a very old diamond engraver, both connected with a LPT Port only. I built him a new computer, but new motherboards don't have LPT ports, I I gave this a try. This was able to communicate with both using a splitter, customer is happy, so am I.

This works in Windows 10 and I'm going to assume it'll work in Windows 11 as well. Just know that drivers for this are going to be tough to come across so invest in the Snappy Driver Installer Origin program. It found the driver for this right away and works perfectly.

I had a lot of trouble with this PCI Parallel/Serial card. I gave it a medium score because I use Ubuntu Linux. The documentation for configuring it for Linux was very confusing and I could never get it work. So I purchased an HP Serial Card that was not PCI but plugged directly into a motherboard connector. What happened was some corruption ... Facebook tabs and some other Internet pages closed with "Gah. Your tab just crashed". I use FireFox for my browser. At first I thought it was a bad SATA cable to my SSD as it ended up with some corruption. Got on A.I. and it suggested possibly an IRQ issue on the PCI. Replaced the SATA cable and problem came back. I pulled this PCI Serial/Parallel card and put back the real Serial card and my PC did not crash. Like I said, I never was able to get the Serial Port to work and think if there was clearer documentation that this would not have been an issue.

I have a higher end pc and my vinyl cutter is getting pretty old. I used to hook it up via a USB to serial cord. Some windows 10 update ended up causing the device to no longer be recognized. After messing with it for about a week I finally got to the point where I have up trying to fix it. As a last resort I went ahead and bought this. I had to sacrifice my WiFi card and was discouraged when windows 10 didn't recognize the hardware. I downloaded their driver that is linked on this page and it's been working great. I hope that this review helps anyone needing a parallel port in their modern desktop.

The card requires proprietary drivers that are not in Windows 7 / 8.x / 10 / 11. I installed this on a special test system as I needed a LPT connection. The drivers are included on the CD in CHINESE, and install with no problems. Card works perfectly. Just wish they would right the driver's in ENGLISH to make it easy.

Really I would give it 4.5 just because I had to find the link for the Windows 10 drivers in the questions. I haven't used the COM port but the LPT work great. I use it to connect to a Windows 98 box that doesn't have net access or USB ports.

Perfect for what I needed. Easy to install and reconfiguring for small form factor PC cases is a breeze! Just make sure you got the right tools to remove the screws from the bracket. These helped me when refreshing PC hardware but still need to connect legacy peripherals like dot-matrix printers that still need a parallel port.

The PCI card looked well made, I used the enclosed CD to do the driver install and it was pretty straghtforward. Here is the problem I have with this one and all the others I have tried. The LPT port does show up in Device Manager but it does not show up in VSA (the software that I use for servo controllers). |Any PC that has a built in printer port works just fine though. This card pretty much behaves like all the others I have tried. I suppose I could spend hours trying options and consulting online technical suggestions but the point is that this device says it works for data and printers so....... I am now out of options because I had to upgrade to a Win10 machine and none of these motherboards have onboard printer ports anymore. Also, the seller doesn't have an option to contact them, any time you click on a support button it takes you to a generic Amazon technical support robot. I'm willing to update my review or rating if I can get this working but I'm not optimistic. I gave it 3 stars because it is well made and the software at least did something, just not what I needed.

I was not sure if this adaptor would work before I order it. But the price is cheap, and I need to set up my backup PC for my business. Why not try? Both parallel and serial ports are working like charm. My business use a very old management software, 20 years old. And it checks a Marx security dongle through the parallel port. I only runs on Windows XP. Also it uses RS-232C serial port to connect the entire 15 pieces of equipment in my business. It all works nicely. Driver installation was just a couple minutes thanks to other customers tip, use CH38XDRV. Without their advice, I would've spent a lot more time. I only hope the board won't break at least for a couple years.

Fitted well made fitting the card easy in a small form factor pc

Not a lot of documentation provided. Tried a couple of drivers on the CD and finally got it working with one of the WCH drivers. There’s two can’t remember which one I eventually used. Spent a morning trying all that out. It’s only a single serial and parallel board but two serial and two parallel have appeared on device manager. It works with my parallel port dongle which was my only requirement.

This card is good and works great when you finally find the right driver. The one you need to use on the CD is CH38XDRV.

Should have included the instructions posted on Amazon in the kit for easy reference.