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My son and I just finished a home-build kit and he left for a trip to China before I could get everything running. I need some help hooking up my old Epson Action Laser 1500. Here is a description of the system: Motherboard: MSI B85M-P33 Intel B85 Processor: Intel Core i3-4150 OS: Win 7 SP1 Cable: Shaxon USB2AD25MM06F-B Here's what I tried so far: 1. Hooked up the Shaxon USB-parallel cable and plugged it in hoping the plug and play would do the work for me. Download Driver Hp Laserjet 1000 Series For Windows 7. Nothing happened. Canon Canoscan D1250u2 Driver Windows 8.

I selected Add Printer and chose the HP LaserJet III (which is the emulation the Epson uses and which worked fine when I used the printer with XP). I chose the settings for the correct USB port and I tried to print a test page and the Feed light on the printer started blinking so I guess there's some communication. I tried pressing the Feed button but nothing happened. I took the printer offline and then pressed the feed button again and got a page with one line of nonsense characters. I read through many forum posts and saw that some have recommended installing cable drivers. Although the drivers that came with the Shaxon cable were for Win Vista, I tried installing them anyway. Hp Service Pack For Proliant Iso Image Download.

One showed up as an installed program in the Control Panel, but the printer will still not print a test page. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to reply to my query. Yes, I read that thread before buying the cable. You're right, that out of all the many forum posts I read on the topic, the ones in this thread seemed the best informed and there were a number of reports of success.