HP 6L Printer won't work with XP

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jkollin

I can not get this parallel printer to work with XP. It installs ok,
just will not print. The docment stays in the queu.

To eliminate what I could I connect the printer and booted from an
Emergency Win 98 diskette. It printed just fine when I did a
dir>lpt1, So it seems to me that the printer, the cable and the
hardware interface in the desktop are happy.

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
This is an old printer. Try BIOS SPP mode instead of ECP mode. This also
assumes that you have XP compatable printer drivers.
(XP defaults to ECP unless the BIOS is set to SPP.)
 
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