I am running a Color Laserjet 4500, but I went the wireless route. It is even hard to find a wireless print server that has a parallel port.
It looks like you are using a different place to download drivers than this Link Removed - Invalid URL, so I do not know about the red X. The site you reference is trying to access your system for testing, so you may have to allow it through the firewall in both directions. Or maybe your anti-virus is blocking it.
If you use a USB to Parallel cable, is there a driver for it also?
Are you running 32 or 64 bit Windows 7?
When you connect the printer to your new computer with the Parallel to USB adapter and turn everything on and open the Device and Printers window, does the HP laserjet 4000 show up?
If no then, If you click the add printer link, and step through the wizard what happens?
My windows 7 ultimate 64bit install has native drivers for the HP laserjet 4000 series already available (PCL5, PCL6 and PostScript), have you tried using those?
I would give you my settings, but it is a wireless connection and not a USB one. I will say I show printing as LPR and not RAW on the Port Settings.
If there are any other settings I can help with, let me know.
PROBLEM SOLVED and here is how. Out of frustration, I again searched online using the words "old printer won't print with usb cable" and one of the links was for a Sabrent SBT cable sold on Amazon.com. I decided to read the reviews thinking I might need a new cable and here is what I found in one of the reviews: "... Then I went into the printer properties and switched from the standard printer port to USB. ..." So, I changed the port to USB instead of the default standard printer and immediately my printer printed a test page. I printed a couple more pages and it's working like a charm. Though I stumbled onto the solution myself, I greatly, greatly appreciate the wonderful help all of you provided. Thank you so very much! Jane
I am currently in Windows 8 so I will have to reboot to 7 if I want to check, but when you check the Devices and Printers dialog and properties for your printer, you should be able to set up ports. Make sure you use the properties option in the middle of the context menu, since the one on the bottom is not an administrative one. I think one says properties, and the other says printer properties or something similar.