Pinout of centronics printer and layout of 36 pin centronics female connectorone of the most used printer interfaces in the past.
Centronics 50 pin connector pinout.
The parallel port centronics interface cable used a 36 pin connector on the printer side and a 25 pin d sub connector on the host pc side.
One end connected to the connector at the top of the card and the other end had a 36 pin centronics connector.
Mini centronics 36 pin male connector top with micro ribbon 36 pin male centronics connector bottom the apple ii parallel printer port connected to the printer via a folded ribbon cable.
Now replaced by ieee1284 b usb.
The function and pinout between the two buses differ.
The centronics interface is an 8 bit parallel unidirectional bus.
The ieee 1284 bus cable which replaced this bus has a maximum run out to 25 feet.