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In mail you write:

> Thank you very much for your advice.
>
> Finally I do not use the network port of this printer and I 
> connected it to the only parallel port of my main computer.
>
> I was reluctant to this idea because this port goes first to a 
> scanner and then to a switch to choose between a plotter, a 
> bubble printer and now this laser printer. But it works perfectly 
> under DR-DOS and Windows95.

Well, under Win 9x, using switchboxes is often a source of problems. 

On the other hand, it's not that hard to find dual parallel port cards
if you have any ISa slots left. PCI ones are easy to find as well, but
are more expensive.

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