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. The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with our NOSPIN Power Linux CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml