What an amazing concept and cable. I had a friend that wanted to hook up an old dot matrix printer to uses as a label printer as he had a lot of pin feed label paper. His computer didn't have a parallel port and no slot to ad one in. Also, he was still running Windows XP. It was easy to install and use, and after a bit of configuration, we were able to use his pin feed labels (wow does that bring back memories). Thanks Startech for an innovative product.