Parallel Printers using USB converter cable?

Hi,
I have a HP Laserjet 6L printer, which only has a parallel port on it. I can successfully use a parallel-usb cable to attach it to my imac, this works fine. But when I attach it to my AE, it isn't detecting.
Should this work?
Thanks
Chris

Wait a minute! It's only certain Indesign documents that won't print.
All TextEdit docs will print.
I created a few scribbles in Photoshop and they print.
But with InDesign, there is no predicting which documents will print or will not print. On some that will not print, if I remove all but one text box, then they will print. On other documents that do print, if I copy some text off of one that won't print and paste it in, then that one stops printing too.
On some that won't print, if I erase everything on the page and create a new text box and type a few words into it, the page will print. If I revert to the previously saved version, once again the page won't print.
What kind of craziness is this, anyway? It seems random. I can't figure it out.
Even on the documents that won't print, when I try to print them the printer's activity light blinks as though it is just about to print, but then the light goes out without printing.
Anybody got any ideas what this problem is and how to fix it?
All I know is that EVERYTHING printed before I upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.4.9.
Tom

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baud = tty->termios->c_ospeed;
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/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c: In function 'cp210x_set_termios':
/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:735:36: error: 'struct usb_serial_port' has no member named 'number'
dbg("%s - port %d", __func__, port->number);
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/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:740:22: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'struct ktermios')
cflag = tty->termios->c_cflag;
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/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:871:36: error: 'struct usb_serial_port' has no member named 'number'
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/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:910:36: error: 'struct usb_serial_port' has no member named 'number'
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/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:932:36: error: 'struct usb_serial_port' has no member named 'number'
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/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:989:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'usb_serial_register' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
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/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.c:996:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'usb_serial_deregister' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
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make[2]: *** [/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source/cp210x.o] Error 1
Makefile:1274: recipe for target '_module_/home/branden/Desktop/Linux_3.x.x_VCP_Driver_Source' failed
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make: *** [all] Error 2
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make ( your cp210x driver )
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ewaller wrote:<hopeful>Do you have an oscilloscope? </hopeful>
First, I think you have a mismatched Baud. Check your settings in GtkTerm. It could also be the uController. I know you said you have it set for 9600 Baud, but are you sure? The divisor settings are dependent on your clock frequency. Are you sure you are using the correct divisors for the frequency of your crystal? And are you using a crystal, ceramic oscillator, or external oscillator for your time base?
I did not think the internal RC oscillators were that bad off, so I was using the internal 8MHz (DIV8 = 0 fuse bit). Taking your advice I just refused the AVR and set it to use a 20MHz clock (external crystal oscillator) to no avail. The setting in GTKterm is certainly 9600 baud.Referencing the datasheet for the Atmega328P we have:
Which gives a a UBRR register value of 129 corresponding to normal speed (U2Xn = 0). This is all computed for me at compile-time via this formula:
20,000,000/(16*9600) - 1 = 129.2 ~ 129 truncated.
That the two devices can communicate tells me they both might be using the same wrong Baud.
I was also suspicious of this .. I do not have a trivial way to test this though. Perhaps some workaround using timers is about the best I can do; no oscilloscope here. Doing a quick high-level test I did find something rather interesting though. Both devices are set to run at 9600 baud. One device is operating at 8MHz (internal oscillator) and the other is using an external 20MHz crystal. I am getting UART communication between the devices, but certainly not the characters I'm sending..
The other problem is that I think you have "Local Echo" turned on in GtkTerm. This places the system in "Half Duplex" mode in which data are not expected to be echoed from the Atmel. That you are getting two characters when the pins are shorted tells me you get the local echo and the loopback. Then the loopback is missing, you still get the local echo. Also, make sure you have parity turned off.
GTKterm does not actually show you what you are typing into the terminal. That is, when you type a character then nothing is displayed to the screen. Presumably this character is sent out as you type it. I was under the impression that local echo would just echo what I type to the screen as well as send it out. Thank you for the clarification.
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Parallel Printers using USB converter cable?

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