how to use labview as virtual printer by parallel port?

[Lino22B]

hi guys, I try to use labview to read the info of a tester equipment (cirris 1100R+), this equipment send to print a report by parallel port with protocol ascii centronics, i want to read this info with the pc and decodify to show it in a vi, i try to read the port LPT1, using VISA driver without result, I also try with IO port DLL with the same result, i follow the next literature:

link: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/B937AC4D8664E37886257206000551CB

[Albert.Geven]

Use a sile digital 8 bit input card, prefrebly with two control lines out and 1 input extra for handshaking.

A usb 5001 should be enoigh, maybe to little handshake.

[Henrik_Volkers]

Long long time ago I had a similar task and used a parallel to serial converter .......

However it was possible to read the LPT port .... but I think it's getting harder with the modern OS versions....    I remember also some BIOS settings that needed to changed.

[Lino22B]

just for curiosity what's mean SILE?

[Albert.Geven]

a simple typing error.... I missed two characters