On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Bob Stia wrote:
> Considering buying a new USB printer for my setup.
>
> Question: I need about 9 feet to keep the equipment in the same location
> it is now. (parallel port) Are there USB cables that long and/or will
> it work.
The specs allow up to a 5m cable between devices and up to 5 hubs max, for
25m between computer and printer, all IIRC. If you can't find a cable
long enough, consider
+----------+ +-----+ +---------+
| computer |-----------| hub |----------| printer |
+----------+ +-----+ +---------+
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