Windows 95 advice please?

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I am stumped! A combination of beng purely a "layman" where computers are concerned and not having used "windows 95" for so long.

My brother in law has only got windows 95 . Until today his Lexmark z32 printer was working fine, then this morning I loaded software and connected my cannon flatbed scanner to his computer so we could scan some family photos.

I connected the printer to the scanner and then connected the scanner to the printer port on the PC. (LPT 1)

Scanner works well, but suddenly, when I try to print I am getting a flashing alert that reads "printer offline" and then an irritating little voice that says "we are having problems communicating with the printer" ( I had forgotten about this phenomenon with windows 95).

So, after scanning the photos, I disconnected the scanner and reconnected the printer directly to the PC.

No luck!!! I am still getting the same error messages.

Now I seem to recall this happening periodically when I last used "Windows 95 " which was about 7/8 years ago.

At the back of my mind I keep thinking I am overlooking something and there is a simple / basic way to correct this problem, but for the life of me I cannot recall how!

Any advice from anyone?
 
Have u uninstalled the cannon scanner driver and app running on taskbar.
Do that first. It locks the printer port.
 
I've started with Win'98, but here is a link to Win 95 printer troubleshooter that they say is better than the '95 TShooter.

Note that the Windows 95 Resource Kit also includes a Print Troubleshooter tool. This tool is more detailed than the Print Troubleshooter in Windows 95.
Click to expand...

http://www.chsoft.com/tsprint.html

I hope this will help.
 
JazzeD said:
Have u uninstalled the cannon scanner driver and app running on taskbar.
Do that first. It locks the printer port.
Click to expand...

Ok sorry guys, was away up in Pretoria from the day after I posted this! A little more information on this locking of the printer port, where do I go and how do I unlock the port?

Thanks for the advice :)
 
Ok if I uninstall the scanner driver, would I have to re-install it every time I want to use the scanner?

I do agree about the windows 95, however he has a pc at work and a work laptop , his home pc is used manily to play his little games like tetris etc.

The scanner is mine, worked perfectly on my pc ( Windows xp ) until the end of January this year when I moved home. My fiancee transported my pc etc himself very carefully, but since the move the scanner has not worked. I left it for all this time (other things happening in my life) and I have just now only tried with the other pc to see if it was the scanner itself that was broken. apparently not. I can only think that somehow the printer port in my own PC is not working anymore.!!!!
 
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You didn't plug the printer and scanner in to the LPT port while they were switched on, did you?
 
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