Plug this thing into the end of your printer cable: http://www.telebyteusa.com/catalog/products/109A.htm Run a RS-232 cable to Com 1 or Com 2 of the PC and use HyperTerminal to capture the data. Nelson http://www.telebyteusa.com/catalog/products/109A.htm Nelson Hochberg writes: > Does the equipment use a standard Centronics PC type printer connector? Yes. > What is the brand and model number of the printer? In fact I guess that any printer can be connected, the equipment output is ascii. We are using an EPSON dot matrix. []s Rodrigo -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads