I want to use a parallel port of my PC , the LPT1, for example,
and the only way i see is using a function of windows API.
        Does anybody knows if i can do this in a different way?

You can write data to LPT1 by :-

        Open "LPT1:" for output as 1
        Print #1,"this is a test"
        Close #1

This will send the text 'this is a test' to LPT1

(check the syntax, its something like that)

|\   /\   /|
|*\/**\/*|
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