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Yes it can, although those will be software steppgens, meaning limited step rate that hugely depends on what latency the PC can maintain, usually you can get 10000 to 50000 steps per second.
If that is enough for what you need, then you can get 6 stepgens from a single parallel port, and 5 inputs.

I am ready to give up encoders. However, i am curious if parallel port can also be used for extra step gens?

thank you very much for the answer, but I really don't understand how to check it, I only know in the case when drivers , old amps` are appeared with an analog input +-10v. Yes ,that this is probably a signal ribbon cable from controller board to driver.