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Date:	Fri, 21 May 2004 06:00:48 PDT7
From:	"Mark Abramowitz" <marka@relaypoint.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: USB to parallel printing

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I have a new box with no parallel port (just USB), and a printer (Lexmark
Optra Color 40) with no USB port.

I purchased a USB to parallel port cable, set up my printer object to
print to the USB port, but cannot print.

Jobs are shown as "waiting." The properties show the printer as
unattached, much like the bubblejet example at
http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?pageid=7&url=os2/hardware/usb8.htm (a
great page, if you've never been there). The USB ports work under OS/2,
and the USB printer driver is shown as having loaded during bootup.

Since posting this problem on the OS/2 hardware list and ecomstation
hardware list, I have done the following, with the following results, or
have found the following clues:

- Chuck McKinnis reports that he is doing this successfully with the same
printer.

- USB print monitor is in startup folder, though not hatched. However,
USBMON shows up as running in my "Pillarsoft Status Center."

- Someone suggested to me that on their machine, it worked with USB 1.1,
but not 2.0. This box is supposed to have both, so I tried different
ports-no luck.

So I turned off USB 2.0 in the BIOS. No luck, but at that point in the
box with output ports, a new one showed up. This one was titled
"Prolific_IEEE_1284_Controller_1". And while the USB output I had been
using had nothing in Properties/Advanced/View Device, this one had
MFG:Prolific Technology Inc.;MDL:IEEE-1284 Controller;DES:Prolific
IEEE-1284 Controller;CLS:PRINTER. However, using this port still showed
the printer unattached, trying each physical port.

I then turned USB 2.0 back on in the BIOS, and the extra USB output device
still showed, but still unattached.

- Someone said that they had to use IBMNULL for it to work, and do a
redirect in the spooler properties. I tried it - no change.

- Bought new cable, different manufacturer (Inland). No change.

Any and all suggestions welcomed.

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