Less commonly referred to as the Centronics interface or Centronics connector after the company that originally designed it, the port was later developed by Epson. The parallel port is found on the back of IBM compatible computers and is a 25-pin (type DB-25) computer interface commonly used to connect printers to the computer; below is an example of the DB25 interface.

The interface found on the back of parallel interfaces is commonly a 36-pin Read the rest of this entry »