That printer is a WinPrinter. Even if you had it connected via the
parallel port, even a real one, it's not going to work without Windows
98 drivers.

-ben

Harvey Best wrote:
I have a friend going through a divorce. He needed a computer and I
had an old W98 SE box that was sitting in a closet I gave him to use
till he gets stuff straigtened out. He bought a little cheap HP USB
printer. Well when I hooked it up and out in the HP disk there is no
W98 drivers. (Should have thought of that) No drivers are availible
at HP's site.

The rub is I can't use the W98 generic drivers as when I do, it still
doesn't "see" the printer. Though sometimes, not all the time, I get
a message "unknown usb device" message.

Is there a work around? I will be him a USB to LPT 1 adapter if such
a thing exists.

I am not sure if this system was upgraded from W95 as I seem to
remember that being a cause of some USB problems back in the early
days of USB.

I guess I could upgrade it to XP but that will really be a strain on
that old box.

Any help appreciated.

Harvey

hbest

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