I have used the Install disk on the V beast, no joy. Havent tried a direct connect as yet, may try that after daghter goes to work. I have my eye on a couple of lan/usb adapters, they say they are compatible with most printers, tho would just be my luck. I would loose the use of the scanner the host pc when going the hardware option, tho not realy a problem, as I didnt realise there was one untill I unpacked the toy.
It is now the weekend, so will have some time to play before spending money becomes an non option.
HP drivers,,,, the Hp4 drivers can be hard to find, I think I have them some where (along with a C64,128, printer, monitor and floppy drives. Thats another story but)