{"id":265386,"date":"2023-08-03T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/?p=265386"},"modified":"2024-04-10T19:54:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:54:03","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-parallel-and-serial-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/2023\/08\/03\/what-is-the-difference-between-parallel-and-serial-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between parallel and serial communication?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Parallel and serial communications are two distinct ways of getting data from a PC to our printer. Serial communication transmits data on only 2 wires, one for sending and one for receiving one bit at a time. Parallel communication transmits data across multiple wires simultaneously. This provides a faster means of data transmission than serial. A parallel printer must be connected to a parallel port, commonly labeled as an LPT port on a PC. The LPT port should be set for bi-directional, standard, or SPP. A serial printer must be connected to a serial port, commonly labeled as a COM port on a PC. The COM port settings must match the printer serial settings to communicate properly. Please consult your PC\ufffds literature to learn how to change these setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parallel and serial communications are two distinct ways of getting data from a PC to our printer. Serial communication transmits data on only 2 wires, one for sending and one for receiving one bit at a time. Parallel communication transmits data across multiple wires simultaneously. This provides a faster means of data transmission than serial. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ithaca-280-support-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transact-tech.com\/service-and-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}