Truff, *OT* several folks have answered you about your PP/USB situation, and I'll try to keep my 2 cents short, but this may help a little.
PP: For this, the absolute best way to go is to get a second PP card. If you take your computer down to BB, CU, CC, wherever, the people down there may even put a new PP in for you gratis when you buy the card. If you do it yourself, you should only need a Phillips-head screwdriver. Once you get it in, check which port is LPT1 and which is LPT2. On a machine which I put in a new card (scanner, Zip, and printer all on LPT1, and it was just too much), the _old_ card suddenly became LPT2. You can almost certainly switch it back, but I just moved the cables around (Occam's Razor approach).
USB: Assuming the USB driver is available, this will be the faster connection by far, and has been said before, will present no conflicts with your PP. IMHO, it is the far better way to go.
One more thing, if you do go to buy a PP card, open up your box first. Many (at least one) of the new computers have only two ISA slots (the black slots with fairly wide connectors - a Dell 266 PII, that I am familiar with, already had a sound card in one and I had to put a scanner interface card in the other), so you might have to look for a PCI PP card (the white slots with a whole bunch of connectors - I don't even know if they exist).
Well, that wasn't too short, but mabye it helped.
Cameron
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