having hesitated given the lack of certainty as to the operation of such a component, however I threw myself to acquire the ABC adapter products that presented a good report comments / price. I own a Canon printer and BJC80 necessarily a notebook without a parallel port. the product arrived relatively quickly in a bubble envelope. the adapter was shipped as a single package, without any explanation concerning possible adjustments to make. after a few attempts it has almost left in the garbage ... with memory the few comments on the same cables that were all going in the same direction regardless of the model, this cable is crap. I even believe I was almost make me ship a gadget kind of one of these mobile phones with nothing in ... I still insisted and it paid off. in fact, although my little Canon does not offer many adjustments, it is one that clearly seems to have changed everything (at least for me it worked). it took to go to the printer properties (which previously must be installed on a USB virtual port 00X, it is normally alone with XP and Vista by plugging the USB jack) on the "Ports" tab and uncheck the "enable bidirectional support". after that, my printer who would not print (paper began to be swallowed and there ... nothing, even after long minutes of waiting) began to resume service. So a good product, but which deserves some explanation ... they were in English. Hoping to have informed some happy owners of old equipment, good luck to those who still have no solution ...