Printer port problem

Go to the control panel & click system. Click the device manager tab and the plus sign next to ports. click on the LPT1 port and click the remove button. Click ok, then open add new hardware. When the wizard gets you to hardware types, choose ports,then under standard port types choose ECP printer port. Accept the default values. Restart computer with your printer on and connected. It is also important that you are using an IEEE-1284 Bi-directional printer cable.

To get to the BIOS settings, you must pay attention to what your computer says. Each computer is different; but before Windows boots, you will generally see: "Press F2 to enter SETUP" or similar wording. F2 in the above case, will take you to your BIOS settings.

You need to look at the parallel port settings and change that to ECP/EPP before you can get your printer to work fully. You might find a "default" or "standard" or "bi-directional" etc in the parallel port setting. If there's no option to change to ECP/EPP, then you have a rather old computer and may need to contact the BIOS manufacturer (AMI, Phoenix, etc) to see if they have an upgrade for you.

The answer Anna777 is what I would try first. Just wanted to add a bit to it. To navigate the bios settings you need to use the arrow keys and to change the settings use the + and - keys