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HP 4L Laser Printer as USB Device

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Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll)
Date: October 29, 2007 at 08:12:18 Pacific
Subject: HP 4L Laser Printer as USB Device
OS: Win XP SP2
CPU/Ram: E6700 / 2 GB
Manufacturer/Model: 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?


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Response Number 1
Name: Aquabania
Date: October 29, 2007 at 10:10:37 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

have you tried starting over? uninstalling everything and reinstalling?

If builders built buildings like programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.


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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: (edit)

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
Reply: (edit)

Yeah, you may be stuck with the problem when using USB. If you have an empty slot you might try something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...


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