Ok, let me lay this one on you fine ladies and gentlemen: Have new Dell Vostro with Vista computer to replace (ack) Windows 98 system (Pentium I or II was it?). New Dell does not have a parallel printer port. My printer is a very faithful Oki 320...
Ok, let me lay this one on you fine ladies and gentlemen:
Have new Dell Vostro with Vista computer to replace (ack) Windows 98 system (Pentium I or II was it?). New Dell does not have a parallel printer port. My printer is a very faithful Oki 320 Turbo Microline for printing out two part invoices. My software program is a DOS based (god love 'em) package that of course only recognizes LPT1. I emulate the driver language which must be set. I am on a LAN, but this printer needs to be physically attached to this new computer. I've used net use for other requirements, but never with this exact problem before (usb port on computer to parallel printer connection on printer). The cable says, ahem, "True PnP and Bi-directional printing" is usb on one end and that Bidirectional style of parallel (i think it's called IEEE Universal printer plug) that connects to my printer on the other end. I may actually be dealing with two problems, as after I plugged in the cable it says it's recognized it and is ready to go. Then plug in the printer and it knows somethings plugged in, but doesn't know it's a printer. I then install the latest printer driver, says its ready to go, print out a test page (this is still all within vista, not the dos software), and nothing happens. It says the print has printed but remains in the que and eventually has to be deleted. I also tried from within the DOS software, because it just prints raw to the printer using the emulation mode I've mentioned above, but nothing happens. Obviously it doesn't recognize the virtual usb port. I can try to turn that USB port into an LPT1, but how do I do that? It doesn't seem as even from within Vista that the print job is working. Any Ideas out there?
Robin
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