Try unplugging the zip drive and plugging the printer directly into your
LPT. If it works like that you need to buy a IEEE 1284 compliant box that
will make your one LPT into 2 or 4 if you have other LPT devices. Belkin
makes the F1U123-KIT for this. Most printer manufacturers recommend that
you do not connect their printers through a passthrough on a zip drive or a
scanner. Some people have written in to say this is not a problem, but I
know that HP definitely recommends against it. Try it and see.
>I have a Pentium 133 with 64 Meg RAM running Win98. Peripherals are a
>100Meg Zip Drive, an Optic Pro Scanner, a Canon BJC4200 printer and a 33.6
>Banksia Wave modem. I recently formatted my HDD due to having far to much
>on the system. Now my printer won't work. The printer is connected to the
>Zip Drive.
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