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Parallel printer on USB port?
Bought a new Inspiron 1525n in April with Ubuntu factory installed. Couldn't connect my beloved HP Laserjet 4 printer because it only has serial and parallel ports, and the Dell laptop only has USB ports. I tried a USB-Parallel cable, but Ubuntu doesn't recognize that there's anything plugged into the USB port. I bought a wireless print server that plugs into the Laserjet. The documentation that came with it is terrible!!! After three weeks of playing around with it, I got it up and running but it was kinda slow. After two months, the print server quit working, and now I can't get it going again. Any other options? Is there a way to manually configure Ubuntu to force it to print through the USB-parallel cable?
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ieee488
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Posted August 3rd, 2008 20:00
USB --> parallel port is problematic even with Windows
Buy a new printer with USB.