LaserJet 5p won't print through USB to Parallel cable on Windows 7

I have a LaserJet 5p that works fine on an old DELL INSPIRON 600m laptop using a USB to parallel cable. When I attach the USB connector to my Gateway All-In-One (ZX6971) running Windows 7 Professional, it installed the 1284 driver and the HP LaserJet 5p
driver and informed me that my printer was ready to use. I have tried printing the Test Page and printing documents. The printer document dialog box indicates a status of Printing for a few minutes and then changes to Error - Printing.

As I said before, the cable and printer work fine with the old DELL laptop running Windows XP. There does not appear to be a compatibility issue between the cable and printer. I will look into a possible driver for the conversion cable.
Windows XP and Windows 7 are two (2) different operating systems. Yes, they both share the name "Windows" and both share some core components, but just because something worked on Windows XP is absolutely no guarantee, or relationship, to how it works
on Windows 7. Many, many things that work in/with Windows XP do not work in/with Windows 7.
In most cases Windows XP and Windows 7 do not use the same drivers to start with.
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