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Hi
can anybody help a novice please.
If I fit a usb2 card to my computer,will I be able to
connect and use my printer, which at the moment is
connected to usb1.1.Also will it produce the faster speed
of usb2.
Hope this makes sense.
Many thanks
Tiggy
PS whatever the reply does it refer to other things, such
as digital camera etc.
 
Tiggy said:
Hi
can anybody help a novice please.
If I fit a usb2 card to my computer,will I be able to
connect and use my printer, which at the moment is
connected to usb1.1.Also will it produce the faster speed
of usb2.
Hope this makes sense.
Many thanks
Tiggy
PS whatever the reply does it refer to other things, such
as digital camera etc.
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The devices have to also be 2.0 compliant to use the faster speed.
 
You can use your printer when connected to a USB2 port but a printer will
not operate more quickly than when connected to USB1.1.
 
Tiggy said:
Hi
can anybody help a novice please.
If I fit a usb2 card to my computer,will I be able to
connect and use my printer, which at the moment is
connected to usb1.1.Also will it produce the faster speed
of usb2.
Hope this makes sense.
Many thanks
Tiggy
PS whatever the reply does it refer to other things, such
as digital camera etc.
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Tiggy, not an expert here, but as far as I understand it, you'll have
your old USB ports and your new ones also. I do not know, however, if
a computer over a certain age needs some kind of motherboard or chip
compatibility - probably not, because if you have a PCI slot, it will
work.

And what someone else said - I don't think your printer can take
advantage of the faster speed available to it even if it was made for
USB 2. But, I bought an external USB hard drive for backing up, and
that I am pretty sure is taking advantage of the increase in speed
with 2.

And you ask about digital cameras - maybe it will download onto your
computer faster with the .JPG pictures it takes. That is if the
camera itself is made for the USB 2. However, I don't think a camera
has much built-in memory to store enough pictures anyway so that the
difference in speed will save you much time. I bought a standard 128
MB memory card for mine, & now it can store over 500 pictures in
standard mode. So no USB anymore for my camera. When a memory card
is used it disables the camera's built-in memory. It uses the
multi-card reader that came with the computer (hopefully anyway - I
haven't tried it yet... :-) )

Big Mac
 
Tiggy, not an expert here, but as far as I understand it, you'll have
your old USB ports and your new ones also. I do not know, however, if
a computer over a certain age needs some kind of motherboard or chip
compatibility - probably not, because if you have a PCI slot, it will
work.
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If a USB2 card is fitted, then peripherals plugged into its
slots will benifit from USB2 speeds and capabilities.
And what someone else said - I don't think your printer can take
advantage of the faster speed available to it even if it was made for
USB 2.
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No reason why not.
But, I bought an external USB hard drive for backing up, and
that I am pretty sure is taking advantage of the increase in speed
with 2.

And you ask about digital cameras - maybe it will download onto your
computer faster with the .JPG pictures it takes. That is if the
camera itself is made for the USB 2. However, I don't think a camera
has much built-in memory to store enough pictures anyway so that the
difference in speed will save you much time.
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Downloading camera images at high speed? What's the point?
I bought a standard 128 MB memory card for mine, & now it can store
over 500 pictures in standard mode. So no USB anymore for my camera.
When a memory card is used it disables the camera's built-in memory.
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Not always. Some do, some don't. Most will have a facility built in
to the camera to transfer pictures from internal memory to the card.
It uses the multi-card reader that came with the computer (hopefully
anyway - I
haven't tried it yet... :-) )
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A card reader is the way to go. No need to mess around with software
to read the camera. "Photo" printers now have slots to read cards
and print copies.
 
A printer can only run at its designed speed and every bus on a computer is
fast enough to let it print at its designed speed. A faster bus will do
nothing for the printer. A hard disk only runs at a fixed speed. The data
transfer rate is determined by the rotational speed for all practical puposes.
Whether USB or USB2 connected no difference will be experienced. .
 
Yes, your Printer can be connected to the new USB 2.0 jacks and so can
any other USB enabled [configured to accept/transmit data via Universal
Serial Bus[USB] connections]. Your new USB 2.0 PCI card is backwards
compatible with older USB speeds [1 and 1.1]. Whether your printer will
operate faster, I frankly doubt. USB 2.0 speed is supposedly up to 40
times faster than USB 1.1; however, remember that the device is limited,
like you and I and any device, to built in capability. In other words, a
printer is, in major part, a mechanical contraption basically limited by
the possible printing speed designed into it. Cramming more data faster
into it, in my opinion, is not going to increase the printing output.
For electronic devices built to handle the added speed, I would guess
you would see a significant speed increase but by a factor of 40???
Gene K
 
Jock said:
If a USB2 card is fitted, then peripherals plugged into its
slots will benifit from USB2 speeds and capabilities.
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The point was that unless you know a printer that can print a page
every couple of seconds (random figure for this example) I don't think
it will matter. A printer is limited to the speed it can print at,
which is still much slower than even USB. That's my non-expert
opinion using my observation of my not-so-slow printer using a USB1 &
then a USB2 port. No difference.

Jock said:
No reason why not.
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[ See answer above paragraph. ]

Jock said:
Downloading camera images at high speed? What's the point?
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Didn't I just mention something along those lines?

However, with digital cameras, at least my cheap 2 megapixel one, I
can do pics as well as video clips, even with cheap sound. So really,
we can easily be talking video & not just still images. What are the
memory capabilities of the newer cameras? Even how much memory do the
new cameras use per image with those huge megapixels?

& since we've been talking about it all along, what is the K bps
transfer rate of USB1 vs USB2? I don't know. But if we are getting
into cameras with huge MBs of memory, maybe there is a point to it.
Not always. Some do, some don't. Most will have a facility built in
to the camera to transfer pictures from internal memory to the card.
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Well I can't argue that. I mentioned my camera. I don't know about
other cameras. The built-in memory of my camera doesn't amount to
much at all compared to the memory card. Perhaps the newer cameras
with the huge megapixel capabilities have a much larger built-in
memory.
A card reader is the way to go. No need to mess around with software
to read the camera. "Photo" printers now have slots to read cards
and print copies.
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I haven't stored enough images yet on my card to plop it in. But that
is good to hear.

Big Mac
 
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