History
In the 1970s, Centronics developed the now-familiar printer parallel port that soon became a de facto standard. The original standard became non-standard itself as enhanced versions of the interface were developed, such as the HP Bitronics implementation released in 1992. In 1991 the Network Printing Alliance was formed to develop a new standard. In March 1994, the IEEE 1284 specification was released
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