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HP 4L Laser Printer as USB Device
Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll) Date: October 29, 2007 at 08:12:18 Pacific OS: Win XP SP2 CPU/Ram: E6700 / 2 GB Product: Home Built
Comment:
I have an HP 4L Laser printer, set as default, which is attached as a USB virtual printer port via a USB 2.0 to Parallel Printer Adapter Cable. Each time I reboot the system again states it found a new USB printer device, and adds the HP 4L Laser printer a second time (copy 2) to the "Printers and Faxes" group, pushing the original (default) item into offline mode thus I can't print until I delete it.
Shouldn't XP simply keep the original entry and not go through the "Found new device" process? What needs to be changed?
Name: Aquabania Date: October 29, 2007 at 10:10:37 Pacific
Reply:
have you tried starting over? uninstalling everything and reinstalling?
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Response Number 2
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: October 29, 2007 at 16:22:22 Pacific
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Have you tried connecting it to the parallel port?
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Response Number 3
Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll) Date: October 29, 2007 at 16:41:51 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the responses.
Aquabania: that's exactly what I do; I delete it before shutting down. If I don't another instance of the same printer is added by XP.
DAVEINCAPS: This PC has no parallel port. That's why I am using a USB 2.0 to Parallel Printer Adapter Cable. The printer, which is 12 years old, is a parallel printer out of the factory.
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Response Number 4
Name: Outlander Date: October 30, 2007 at 05:37:12 Pacific
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Laserjet 4's Were never meant to be USB devices. This may just be a problem you might have to deal with.
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Response Number 5
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: October 30, 2007 at 11:30:20 Pacific
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Yeah, you may be stuck with the problem when using USB. If you have an empty slot you might try something like this:
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