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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