Windows 98 printer

[Taffy Apple]

My girlfriends old man has a Win98 box for basically word processing and their printer has just packed in.

No when they went to a couple of stores, they basically said "oh printers only come with usb connectors now which means you need a new computer."

Now I don't know everything about computers, but I know a line when I hear one. Am I right, that these guys are talking bullshit?

Hell, I just bought a new printer myself and its got instructions for installing on Win98.

 

[Mandane]

USB devices were supported when Windows 95 was out....

 

[pettybone]

If you have win98SE it should be ok. Thats not always true though. Win98SE can be pretty buggy. Your SOL with win95.

 

[filthysanchez]

parrallel to usb adapter?

 

[pettybone]

Should work too.

 

[engiNURD]

It's a line. What printer and what version of 98? I've got an epson C66 usb installed on my win98 box (866Mhz p3).

 

[Zepher]

USB printers and Win98 are a toss up.
I had 2 clients with 2 different machines and printers end up with the exact same issues.
When on the internet browsing and trying to print from the browser to the USB printer, the computers would lock up and you had to hard reboot the machines.
you could print from any application you wanted, but as soon as you try to print from IE or Firefox, it would lock the machines.
Using a parallel cable on one setup fixed the issue, the other clients printer was USB only and he was SOL.