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    Using USB to Parrell Cables

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    by shop1mickeyb ·

    I’ve just got 50 USB to Parrell cables & I’m trying to may them up with some old printers (Star LC10 Colour, Canon BJC-70) in XP. So far no luck the USB cable is recognised & installs itself & I can view it in Device Manager as “USB Printing support”. But when I try to add a printer nothing is detected so I manually assign a printer to USB001 (tried USB007 also) but after a while it comes back that whatever I send it can’t be printed. Does any one have any ideas I guess the issue is that XP recognises “USB Printing support” as a USB device but it can’t find the printer sitting at the end of it?

    Regards,

    Mickey.

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    • #2630321

      Clarifications

      by shop1mickeyb ·

      In reply to Using USB to Parrell Cables

      Clarifications

    • #2630255

      re USB01 vs LPT port

      by thumbsup2 ·

      In reply to Using USB to Parrell Cables

      Older printers won’t recognize a USB port. Much like USB/Serial adapters create another COM port, the USB/Parallel adapters should have created another LPT port. So, look to see if you can assign the printers to that new LPT port (LPT3 ?) instead of anything beginning with USB.

      • #2475614

        Use a share

        by eljainc ·

        In reply to re USB01 vs LPT port

        Install your printer on a virtual USB port
        (i.e. USB0001).

        Then share the printer (i.e. PRINTER1)
        Then issue a ‘net use’ command to map LPT1 to a share:

        NET USE LPT1 \\MYPC\PRINTER1

        voila! now your software that uses LPT1 or LPT2, etc. can print to this printer.

        • #2452315

          Still can’t print

          by shop1mickeyb ·

          In reply to Use a share

          Hi thank you for that it was very helpful but there was 1 problems I couldn’t do the:

          NET USE LPT1 \\MYPC\PRINTER1

          part as I don’t know what to put for “MYPC”. I tried “My Computer” but I still got “system error 67”.

          Regards,

          Mickey.

        • #2767106

          %COMPUTERNAME% or hostname

          by rcpa0 ·

          In reply to Still can’t print

          The value for MYPC can be found by typing “set” in a cmd.exe box and looking for COMPUTERNAME=. You can also type “hostname” in cmd.exe as well.

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