Angelo Campanella said the following..
> One-by one such applications morphed into first image
> printing, then USB feed only. Most of them I have been able
> through Windows to satisfy printer output changes to the USB
> port. But a few applications, sometimes critical to a report I
> am writing, still output to LPT1 for rendering.
> So what I need is a software item that will intercept the LPT1
> data internal to my PC (a T43 ThinkPad, now headed for
> obsolescence) and morph it into a conventional USB printer
> output suited to the HP6122 or any other printer I must buy in
> the future. I would think that Windows XYZ should be able to
> do that in its sleep, but Microsoft has not thought of that
> yet, I guess.
Have you tried:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314499