Re: HPDeskJet 812C printer, can I make 2 direct connections with parallel & USB?
- From: Ben Myers <ben_myers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:50:12 -0400
SlickRCBD wrote:
On Sep 11, 9:03 pm, Ben Myers <ben_my...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:SlickRCBD wrote:Since nobody has come up with a solution to my Vista printing woes,The direct answer to your question is: "Sort of". A device with both
I'm wondering about an alternate solution. The printer supports both a
parallel connection and a USB connection. Is it possible to use both
at the same time? Hook the old Win98SE machine up with the parallel
cable it's always used, and hook up the Vista comuter to the USB
port? When I print from the Virtual WinXP machine I can continue to
use the Win98SE share, but when I print from Vista I will use the
built-in drivers and print via a direct USB connection instead of a
network share.
Will this solution work, or will I get problems besides the obvious
conflict if I try to print from both machines simultaneously. I have
never done that, and given it's a home environment, with the two
machines so close together situated around a corner with the printer
in between, it's virtually impossible for two people to use the two
computers at the same time; it shouldn't be an issue.
parallel and USB ports can usually use only one port at a time. You
would be forced to power down the printer and change the cable connected
each time you wanted to print from a different computer.
Is there some reason why you can't connect the 812C to the Vista
computer and share it from there with the Windows 98SE computer?
I am convinced that the best way to share a printer is through a
network, assuming you have one already for both computers to access the
internet. In that case, you need a print server, a small box connected
to a router or hub via Ethernet, and connected to the printer itself.
Print servers are both wired and wireless, with wired being least
expensive. With your setup, a wired (i.e. Ethenet) print server would
do the job... Ben Myers
I completely forgot about this post as I made several and forgot to
bookmark this newsgroup I had cross-posted and nobody responded on the
other group. Unlike my old newsreader, Google Groups doesn't seem to
track a cross-posted thread very well. Here's the issue I'm having.
The printer has been connected to the parallel port on the Win98SE
computer since I got it. When I later acquired a Windows XP computer,
I shared it from the Win98SE machine with no problems. I later got a
job at a company and needed to be able to connect to the domain with
XP, so the company subsidized me buying XP pro. That upgrade
surprisingly had no problems at all. The XP computer has since
suffered hardware failure. I replaced it with a brand new Windows
Vista 64-bit Home Premium computer. Now I have problems. The printer
share works the first time I install the printer, but after shutting
everything off for the night, the Vista computer will no longer
recognize the DeskJet as being online and available. No matter what I
do it insists the printer is "offline" and holds the documents I send
to it in queue. Adding another printer using the same port results in
the Vista computer once again being able to print TO THE NEW PRINTER
ONLY, but only until I shut everything down for the night.
The procedure i use in both XP and Vista is to "add a local printer"
and print to the port created when I try and fail to "connect" to the
DeskJet. This works in XP, doesn't work in Vista.
The strange thing is that I installed Virtual PC 2007 on the
computer, and installed Windows XP Pro under Virtual PC. That virtual
machine has no problems whatsoever with the 98SE share even though
it's on the same hardware, and VIsta is running as the host OS.
Hence why I thought maybe I could connect the USB cable to the new
Vista computer and leave the parallel port as is. The printer is
sitting on an old printer stand between the two computers.
I'm not sure if VIsta would be able to share with win98SE as win98SE
does NOT have "HP DeskJet812C" as a built-in option in the list. I
have to install the driver from the CD, and it doesn't have the .inf
file. I have to run an exe to install it.
Well, it sounds like your best option is to connect the 812C to the Vista computer, then share it with the Win 98 one.
Your second best and more costly option would be to get a network printer device (a small device with an Ethernet port and either a USB port or parallel port), attach the printer to it, and connect the printer device to a port on the router you must have there. Install the net printing device, and configure it with an IP address in the range of your router, e.g. 192.168.1.50. Then install the printer drivers on both computers and select a TCP/IP port for the printer (again, 192.168.1.50). Print a test page from both computers to make sure it works. You will end up with a printer that can run all by itself, independent of either computer. You can then print without having the other computer powered up... Ben Myers
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