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Re: plug & play, brother mfc740

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From: Jeff Henshaw
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:00
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There is a lot of good parallel port Zip troubleshooting & background
info on the Iomega site at http://www.iomega.com/support/1.html . One
of the links discusses communication conflicts between the printer and
the Zip. 

Jeff

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:34:51 +1000, "Motorcycle Concepts"
<mcycle_concepts@bigpond.com> wrote:

>A friend with A Canon BJ 620 had the same problem with
>scanner, zip and printer on same port and uses the
>raster driver for the printer and now no problems.  I
>had problems with my Epson 740 and a Zip drive sharing
>so I didn't even try workarounds and installed an extra
>parallel port.  No problems now.
>
>C.D.Kuder MVP wrote in message ...
>>My German is not very good, but it seems like your
>friend has a problem with
>>a Brother MFC 740 multi function printer/fax/copier
>related to using a
>>parallel port zip drive.
>>
>>My experience with the parallel port zip drive and
>various scanner and
>>printer drivers makes me think that an either but not
>both may occur with
>>the zip drive.
>>I use a cannon BJC 620 printer, a Mustek 600III EP
>Plus, and a parallel zip
>>drive on the same parallel port. (they are daisy chain
>connected in this
>>order--zip, scanner, printer.)
>>All will function, but may not be used simultaneously.
>It was necessary to
>>use the standard bi-directional parallel port mode in
>BIOS and in windows,
>>and use an alternate raster printer driver that does
>not use a printer
>>monitor. The original WPS printer driver caused all
>sorts of problems.
>>
>>Patrick Velte <PVelte@T-OnLine.De> wrote in message
>>news:7jdqc3$mtt$1@news02.btx.dtag.de...
>>> hy *all*
>>>
>>> ein guter freund von mir hat sich vor kurzem einen
>brother mfc740
>>> farbtinten-drucker/kopierer/fax (kombiger�t)
>gekauft. eigentlich l�uft
>>auch
>>> alles perfekt, auch die steuerung vom pc aus ist
>einwandfrei. das problem,
>>> was er hat, ist, da� sobald windows neu hochgefahren
>wird, jedesmal eine
>>> neue hardwarekomponente, n�mlich der drucker,
>gefunden wird. egal was man
>>> macht, jedesmal beim neustart findet er aufs neue
>den drucker und will die
>>> installationssoftware. wenn man dabei abbricht, ist
>in den
>>systemsteuerungen
>>> der drucker schon aufgelistet und funktioniert laut
>windows auch
>>> einwandfrei.
>>> zu erg�nzen ist noch, da� am gleichen lpt auch ein
>zip-drive h�ngt, was
>>�ber
>>> einen externen druckerumschalter geswitched wird.
>vielleicht h�ngt es
>>> irgendwie mit der zip-drive-software zusammen; kann
>ich mir jedoch nicht
>>so
>>> ganz vorstellen.
>>>
>>> hat jemand irgendeine idee oder vielleicht sogar
>einen klugen plan, wie
>>man
>>> dieser windows-macke entkommen kann ?!?!?
>>> f�r jede antwort w�re ich dankbar.
>>>
>>> antworten bitte direkt als e-mail an
>pvelte@t-online.de
>>>
>>> merci
>>> ciao
>>> patrick
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>----------------
>>> Patrick Velte
>>> Velte@GMX.De
>>> Http://Home.T-OnLine.De/Home/PVelte
>>> ACHTUNG: Bei Problemen mit Attaches
>>> Mail an: PVelte@T-OnLine.De
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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From: jhenshaw@teleport.com (Jeff Henshaw)
Subject: Re: plug & play, brother mfc740
Date: 1999/06/29
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