What is Centronics?

 What is Centronics? Epson Parallel Printer Ports Interfaces
Printer Interfaces

     A standard interface for connecting printers and other parallel devices. Although Centronics Corporation designed the original standard, the Centronics interface used by modern computers was designed by Epson Corporation. For PCs, almost all parallel ports conform to the Centronics standard. Two new printer port standards that are backward compatible with Centronics, but offer faster transmission rates, are ECP (Extend Capabilities Port) and EPP (Enhanced Parallel Port).

Interface Transfer Rates
Centronics 40KBps
SPP 150 KBps
ECP 2 MBps
EPP 2 MBps

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