Advice needed re; diy male/male parallel printer cable.

Hi. Not sure if this is the right place to ask or not.

I can't find a male/male printer cable anywhere here on the Sunshine Coast other than online. Trouble is, all my bits have arrived today and I want to get my Gecko 540 and servos up and running this weekend.

I was lucky enough to find an old parallel port printer cable and bought a male DB25 assembly from Jaycar electronics. I've now successfully rewired the female end and checked continuity with a DMM.

Here's my question; The Gecko manual describes pins 18-25 as "GND" but, although this printer cable has a jumper across pins 19 to 25, they're not actually 'grounded', just joined to each other. There is a conductor that connects the shell at one end to the shell at the other. Should pins 18-25 be grounded to the shell or am I right to go?

Could someone please check their cable to see if there's continuity between these pins and the shell?

Cheers in advance.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_port

18-25 = Signal Ground

You could also get a DB25 gender changer like www.ebay.co.uk/itm/25-Way-Pin-DB25-Seria...b:g:onYAAOSwhjRaqPdc

We have lots of them around here (because we used to have several machines that used them.) Look for a parallel port extension cable.
www.cablesondemand.com/category/DB25/pro...TKiYrUxoCzigQAvD_BwE
This is the first link google popped up.

Sounds like a job for the Cable Chick
www.cablechick.com.au/