A friend of mine has a problem with printing. The problem originally started as his Epson printer not feeding paper correctly. He bought a new HP printer around Christmas (with both parallel and USB connections). The HP prints a garbled mess, one or two lines per page, until the paper runs out. We've tried the HP on both parallel and USB ports with the same results. He's replaced the parallel cable with a new HP certified bi-directional cable. Both printers work fine on his notebook computer, through either parallel or USB connections! Where should we look to solve this problem? My first thought was to disable the onboard parallel connection and install a parallel port card. But I think the problem is more involved than that because the USB printer connection doesn't work either. He does have a parallel port scanner installed (Storm? brand). The scanner isn't working either. The printers have been tried with and without the scanner connected (but not removing the scanner software & drivers). The desktop computer is a generic make with an AMD K6 cpu, and (I think) a Tyan motherboard, 64 MB ram, 4 GB hard drive (less than half used), parallel port scanner, etc, running Windows 98 SE. Thanks for your help! Ron Jobe ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml