Any other driver board choice except mesa board?

Hi,I'm building a machine with lathe and 4 axis milling ,I dont know if parallel port enough for this task . if it is enough ,I'll consider to use it .although it 's commonly said the parallel is too old ..

Don't forget Ethercat. Som good hardware buit in Asia at reasonable prices. (there is no controller) refer the Ethercat sectio on this forum.

Thanks a lot,I 'll go to look into it

Hi,I got a question . if I use parallel port to test the machine .the first problem will be that my pc 's mainboard not have the printer port to connect .if using the Db25 to usb convert ,will that be workable ?

No.

No, these USB to parallel adapters do not work properly as a stepper output.
You can get PCI or PCIe parallel port cards to plug into your PC motherboard.
There is also the Pico Systems universal stepper controller board (my product)..
Jon