Canon® BJC® 4200 and 4300 printers maintain bi-directional communications between the computer and printer. This can cause a conflict while trying to use your Iomega® parallel port drive. To use your printer with the Iomega drive while allowing your drive to be detected you must disable bi-directional communication between the computer and printer. Follow the steps below to accomplish this:

1. Double-click the My Computer icon.
   
   
2. Right-click the Canon BJC printer icon and select Properties.
   
   
3. Click the Details tab.
   
   
4. Click the Spool Settings button.
   
   
5. Click Print directly to the printer.
   
   
6. Click Disable bi-directional support for this printer.
   
   
7. Click OK.
   
   
8. Click the Port Settings button.
   
   
9. Make sure there is no checkmark in front of Check port state before printing.
   
   
10. Click OK.
    
    
11. Click OK.
    
    
12. Close the Printers dialog box.
    
    

1. Remark the "Device=" line in the WIN.INI file that refers to the Canon printer.
   
   
   1. Click Start, then click Run.
      
      
   2. In the Open box, type sysedit.
      
      
   3. Click OK.
      
      
   4. Click the C:\WINDOWS\WIN.INI window to make it active.
      
      
   5. Scroll down and find the "Device=" line that refers to the Canon printer.
      
      
   6. Place two semicolons (;;) at the beginning of that line.
      
      
   7. Click File on the menu bar, then click Exit.
      
      
   8. Click OK.
      
      
2. Disconnect the printer from the Iomega drive.
   
   
3. Restart the computer.
   
   
4. Manually install the driver for the Iomega parallel port drive.
   
   
   1. Click Start, select Settings, and click Control Panel.
      
      
   2. Double-click Add New Hardware.
      
      
   3. Click Next.
      
      

      Note: Windows 98 will do a search for plug and play devices. Click Next to begin the search. After the search, if a screen asks, "Is the device that you want to install listed below?" and the Iomega adapter is listed, cancel and repeat … If there is not an Iomega adapter listed, select No then click Next.

   4. Select No.
      
      
   5. Click Next.
      
      
   6. Double-click SCSI Controllers.
      
      
   7. Click Have Disk.
      
      
   8. From the Install disk prompt, click the Browse button. From the Drives drop-down list at the bottom of the window, choose the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive.
      
      

      Note: If you downloaded the driver and are installing from that file, browse to the location where you downloaded the file.

   9. Within the Folders list, double-click the w9stuff folder.
      
      
   10. Click OK.
       
       
   11. Click OK.
       
       
   12. From within the Models list, highlight Iomega Parallel Port Interface.
       
       
   13. Click Next.
       
       
   14. Click Finish.
       
       
   15. Click Yes to restart the computer.
       
       
5. Reconnect the printer to the Iomega drive.
   
   
6. Remove the remark from the WIN.INI file.
   
   
   1. Click Start, then click Run.
      
      
   2. In the Open box, type sysedit.
      
      
   3. Click OK.
      
      
   4. Click on the C:\WINDOWS\WIN.INI window to make it active.
      
      
   5. Scroll down and find the "Device=" line that refers to the Canon printer with the two semicolons (;;) at the beginning.
      
      
   6. Remove the two semicolons (;;) at the beginning of that line.
      
      
   7. Click File on the menu bar, then click Exit.
      
      
   8. Click OK.