Thank you so much for your answers.
I am currently stuck with residing the garage and, for the time being, can only work four or five hours a week. (Part of the reason I am trying to move on to "desk" type activities!) We pinched garage siding to fix the siding on the exposed end of the house two years ago and the neighbours are getting restive as the garage just has tar paper like the poor end of an Appalacihan mining town!
Windows version is Windows 10.
Yes, I can print VisualCadd plans to my Brother laser printer. I never even considered whether it used a raw connection or via Windows. It printed fine to the predecessor inkjets too. Two and three computers ago that would have been via LPT port. I didn't notice any problems when we moved to USB so I might make the assumption that it is via Windows.