USB to 25 Pin Parallel Printer Cable Problems with Win XP (HP LaserJet 1100)
I’ve got a HP LaserJet 1100 printer which has a 25 pin Male Parallel connection which used to plug into the parallel port of my old computer.
I now have a Dell E520 & that does not have a parallel port, so I have purchased a USB to 25 Pin DB25 Parallel Printer Cable adapter. It is meant to be plug & play for Win XP, however when I plug it into a USB connection directly on the back of the computer, nothing happens??? And there is no change in device manager under Universal Serial Bus Controllers.
I have tried the cable plugged in on its own, plugged in with the printer connected & still the same, XP does not pick it up. I’ve tried it on 3 different computers (all running XP, 2 on Pro & 1 on Home) with the same results.
However what I have found is that XP picks it up if I plug the cable into a USB hub (which in turn is connected to the PC) & not directly into the back of the PC, however even then it only picks it up as an ‘Unknown Device’.
Is there anything I can do to change the status of the ‘Unknown Device’ to something that the PC recognizes as a printer? Alternatively is there anything else I can try that should yield some positive results?
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