USB printers don't work

[Ammok]

Anyone help me.?

Freinds old printer packs up so I advise cheap USB printer. Running win98 not se.

Thing works while I am there and then refuses to work later when I am not. I upgrade to Win Me, get the latest drivers and still the little bugger won't work properly. I take it home and it works fine for me first time.

So I buys it off her and gets her a new xerox with a parallel port. |Takes it up and installls it and it works fine while I am there. Guess what? Just will not work when I am gone. I go back up check bios everthything and cannot get it to work. Totally flummoxed.

Seperately, but maybe connected, I install another usb epson and it fails to work at all. Installation program says cannot connect to printer. I find a file on the cd with all the indiviual files with the exception that the last letter is an underscore, eg printer.in_ , so I copy them all across and rename them to the proper file name, eg printer.inf and then do a manual install pointing to my new directory, bloody thing works.

Anyone help?

[DocEvi1]

We had a similar prob with an HP 5.. It turned out that the USB ports weren't configured properly, and the drivers that came with it were shot.
Since you have already tried newest drivers, I would suggest trying the latest drivers for the mboard, there should be drivers for your USB ports there.

As for the parallel port, have you checked the Interupt and the port in device manager. Try re-installing it. A problem I have had is that the printer loses it's capture - something to do with a dodgy cable I think.

Stefan

[Psycho Logical]

Since printers work when you're there, why not just move in? Cheaper rent, benefits too? :rolleyes: