Connect Legacy parallel printer on computer laptop w/USB Port

Anyone with a printer HP legacy parallel port and a newer PC will have a challenge connecting the printer to the PC. The question is: can it be done and, if so, how?

I have an old, OfficeJet - a R40xi relaiable. She has just a single interface - a parallel cable. Now, I have two PCs with no parallel port - an HP laptop and a desktop HP. Both running XP Home OS.

Question is - is there hope using a parallel cable series on the laptop or a parallel to USB cable either?

I suspect that Windowz XP and the driver of HP will not 'see' the printer on the serial or USB ports. Before that I go out and buy cables and pass the TIME, trying to get the system to work, I thought I would ask the advice of EXPERTS. Everyone out there knows?

One option that I still have is to install a parallel card in the desktop PC. I don't know if there is a parallel PCI card for the laptop, but I can watch using GMBMG.com.

TIA.

Ko

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