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You can connect your USB printer by following a few easy steps: 1  Plug in the printer, and ensure that itâs turned off. Also, set up the printer with ink and paper and all that other good stuff, according to the directions that came with the printer. 2  Connect a USB cable to the printer and to your laptop. 3  Turn on the printer.
For newer workstations without parallel ports, business owners can use USB-to-parallel adapter cables to connect and use older printers. To connect a USB printer to an older computer with only a parallel port, you must use an active conversion box, as no reliable parallel-port-to-USB printer cable currently exists.