I'm one of those who has never had a problem piggy -backing a printer
onto a Zip drive - even an HP laserjet - although I cant deny that such
problems exist. However, there is another solution - buy another parallel
port card so you can plug the Zip into one parallel port & the prn into
the other.

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 17:41:00 -0700 "Joel M. Blackman" <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> 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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