Yes buy a new printer.
I had same issue with a scanner; too hard basket
On 11/04/2011 12:08 PM, Greg Keogh wrote:
Folks, I've been helping a friend migrate from a 4 year old box to a
snazzy new one we built last week.
He has an EPSON Stylus 700 printer which plugs into the 25-pin male
printer port on the old box, but the new motherboard doesn't have
those old types of plugs, just USBs. He either buys a new printer,
buys a Centronix-to-USB cable or buys a parallel port card. We did the
latter cheap option because the local shop had a $12 Ritmo 1-port
parallel card available.
Now I can't get Windows 7 to recognise the card. It came with a driver
CD which only goes as far as Vista and an attempt to install that
driver gives a helpful message like "Installation failed". Web
searches produced one possible driver from a different brand, but that
install produces a version rejection message.
Device Manager shows the parallel port card with an exclamation mark.
Attempts to upgrade the driver from here always fail. Attempts to
locate the driver INF file also fail. I can also see COM1 and LPT1
listed in Device Manager, but I presume they don't actually exist.
I'm confused and out of ideas. Any ideas anyone?
Greg
