printing through a zipdrive

I have a new Dell with XP and have been trying to get my 890c to print
working through my zipdrive like I did on my old machine where it worked
just fine with 98. When I try it on the new one it prints a third of the
picture and then ejects the paper and any other paper in the tray ad
infinitum. Plugging it straight to the parallel port it works fine but Im
not impressed with the print quality. It was better on the old p2-400. So
now I hav 3 devices wanting a parallel port(I had 2 on the old machine) and
cant make it work with the zipdrive. Must I go buy everything USB to get
things to work right?

XP will not support piggy backing of parallel devices (as you appear to have
discovered).

You can purchase a separate PCI card with an additional parallel port, or
you can switch to a USB printer or Zip drive.

Or, of course, with 2 PCs, you can network them together and use the
parallel port on the old PC, have the printer attached to that PC and then
print through the network!

Cari
www.coribright.com

"r0nbo" wrote in message
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I have a new Dell with XP and have been trying to get my 890c to print
working through my zipdrive like I did on my old machine where it worked
just fine with 98. When I try it on the new one it prints a third of the
picture and then ejects the paper and any other paper in the tray ad
infinitum. Plugging it straight to the parallel port it works fine but Im
not impressed with the print quality. It was better on the old p2-400. So
now I hav 3 devices wanting a parallel port(I had 2 on the old machine)
and
cant make it work with the zipdrive. Must I go buy everything USB to get
things to work right?

yes I have but dont understand what the difference is. I had this
configuration running on my old box on a 2nd port because the scanner
demanded the onboard one. It worked fine for years and now XP is screwing
me. I knew the old scanner was a lost cause but this really puts me in a
bind. Ive tried networking the two together and it works fine as long as I
dont want to be on the internet. Routers and cable access dont seem to like
each other much so Im back to just the new machine online. Thanks for the
reply.
"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote in message
...
XP will not support piggy backing of parallel devices (as you appear to
have
discovered).

You can purchase a separate PCI card with an additional parallel port, or
you can switch to a USB printer or Zip drive.

Or, of course, with 2 PCs, you can network them together and use the
parallel port on the old PC, have the printer attached to that PC and then
print through the network!

Cari
www.coribright.com

"r0nbo" wrote in message
news:dw1na.198681$OV.268311@rwcrnsc54...
I have a new Dell with XP and have been trying to get my 890c to print
working through my zipdrive like I did on my old machine where it worked
just fine with 98. When I try it on the new one it prints a third of the
picture and then ejects the paper and any other paper in the tray ad
infinitum. Plugging it straight to the parallel port it works fine but
Im
not impressed with the print quality. It was better on the old p2-400.
So
now I hav 3 devices wanting a parallel port(I had 2 on the old machine)
and
cant make it work with the zipdrive. Must I go buy everything USB to get
things to work right?