Under 'Printers and Devices' I get 1 (Or in the case of a dual parallel port card, 2) 'Microsoft aw Port' devices. Device manager gets the parallel port(s) under Ports (COM & LPT) however it also gets a 'multifunction adapter' in a different section (Not sitting at the PC now, so I don't recall which.) Both devices appear to be fine and report that they are workingĢ. No errors appear in the device manager, however a couple of odd things happen.ġ. The card installs okay, and Windows 7 finds drivers for it and installs them. My next solution was to add parallel ports via PCI card adapters. I first tried USB to Parallel to connect the printer, however, this does not work, since the printer isn't smart enough to identify itself, it will not appear as a These PCs are for use in a point of sale application, which requires a dot matrix printer. I overlooked that they did not ship with a parallel port. I've recently received some new PCs which were shipped with Windows 7 Professional.
