does my printer need an ieee 1284 controller to work

Leaving the cable connected whilst also leaving 2 pen-drives in the other 2 available USB ports in place and shutting-down and booted-up again, yet again the printer did not want to print! Ejecting theĢ pen-drives and un-plugging them and disconnecting the printer cable then shutting-down again and booting-up, I then re-connected the printer cable and yes again the printer printed.įor clarities sake my printer has 2 lights one orange and one green: the orange light is for paper-jams etc., the green lights to indicate power is on whilst blinks when receiving data. Shown any more then printer connectivity worked and the printer printed instantly.Ī queer thing also happened after I got it working. When I did shut-down and then boot-up again both USB000 & USB002 were deleted and not When I tried printing the job went in the que and after 1 or 2 mins a print error occured/displayed and the printer did not print. The difference (if it had anything to do with it) I've noted was that when I did not shut-down and boot-up again, 2 more ports where displayed (in Printer Properties under Ports): USB000 and USB002 together with Left it for few seconds and booted up again. What I did was after plugging in the 'ATEN UC-1284B - USB Parallel Printer Cable' that was connected to my HP DeskJet 870Cxi printer that was switched-on and letting it be recognized and set as default printer, I then shut down the laptop (not re-start), finally I got it working, but gave me a hack of a time! Knowing that on other desktop PCs (Pentium II, Pentium IV running Win XP) it worked fine, I HAD to persevere.

Does my printer need an ieee 1284 controller to work