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?

have you tried starting over? uninstalling everything and reinstalling?

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Have you tried connecting it to the parallel port?

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.

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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