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Parallel Port Enables or disable the parallel port.

The parallel port is a PnP device. Enabled/Disabled

setting won’t affect the Windows Device Manager

setting of the parallel port.

Configure Parallel Port using options:

Disabled: No configuration

Enabled: User configuration

Auto: BIOS or OS chooses configuration

Enabled

Disabled

Auto

Mode Set the mode for the parallel port using options.

If operation mode is set to ECP DMA channel, sets

the direct memory access (DMA) channel for the

printer to operate in ECP mode. This parameter is

enabled only if operation mode is set to ECP.

Bi-directional

EPP

ECP

Output only

Base I/O Address Set the base I/O address for the parallel port.

378

278

Interrupt Set the interrupt for the parallel port.

IRQ 7

IRQ 5

DMA Channel Set the DMA channel for the parallel port.

DMA 3

DMA 1