by figgie on Fri May 15, 2009 2:37 am
aljiru
to add to Darren's post.
CAN is a serial interface with a serial transmission. What you are proposing is basically sending a serial stream into a parallel system that uses parallel data information. Not a simple task of doing that without adding a serial-parallel convertor in the middle and not any serial stream, CANbus.
Look at the older printers that had a serial AND parallel port on it. Not very easy way to go between both.