Re: A very basic printing question re XY3

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Robert Holmgren  wrote:

> From: Robert Holmgren 
> Subject: Re: A very basic printing question re XY3
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 8:25 AM
> ** Reply to message from J R FOX 
> on Mon, 1
> Dec 2008 14:04:58 -0800 (PST)
>
> On further consideration, it seems to me very peculiar that
> LPT1
> is unavailable unless there simply is no parallel adapter
> in the
> machine.
>
> -----------------------------
> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxxxx


Thanks for your reply.

I did not build this new box, nor did I have the kind of time I would have liked for checking it
out. But I will be visiting there again at the end of the month, so hopefully then. Frankly, I'm
surprised to find *any* recent systems that still have a Parallel Port, unless someone deliberately
specified this to a custom builder.

Perhaps this will fill in part of the missing info: Win XP, HP-LJ4L -- one of the smallest models HP
ever made, and I'm reasonably sure that it was Parallel only. The computer is a custom built
dual-core. I was told that there was only an LPT3, but I did not get into the BIOS (next time), and
did not consider that LPT3 could be a "simulation." Now I'm intrigued, and would like to
get to the bottom of this. It is sounding like the mystery may be simpler than I expected, though.


[I'm about to do up a new box for myself and it apparently has NO MB headers for Parallel or for PS/2. Based on some other-system trials, I would expect my USB --> PS/2 adapters to work well, so I should not have to give up my Omni Key keyboard or preferred mouse. But I'm not as sure about the USB --> Parallel adapter I bought, or whether one might overload and generate confusion with too many USB devices connected. Should that turn out to be a problem, I'll have to look at the other solutions, since all my own printers remain Parallel interface.]


 Jordan