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The printer is an old Epson LQ-300+. I want to be able to send my own commands to it, but modern computers don't have parallel ports, so I decided to make my own USB interface. I thought I might as well, if I'm going to be writing the software anyway.

This interface (Arduino) goes between the printer and the laptop, appearing as a serial port to a program of mine which will be running on the laptop. In this video, for testing that I can communicate with the printer, the Arduino itself is sending the data, instead of my laptop. In the next video, the Arduino will be playing a simpler role and mainly just forwarding data from my laptop to the printer.

NEXT PART - SOFTWARE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG4cm2Ay0GQ