IT managers - what non-technical job responsibilities do you struggle to manage? Best Practices & General ITĪs an IT manager, most of the job involves a number technical problems to solve and plan for, but there are numerous non-technical hurdles to jump over as well.things like Alien libraries of historical love letters were crowding in there, bu. All the dueling themes kind of had my head swimming. Valentine's Day is coming up, which strangely this year is also Library Lovers' Day and Extraterrestrial Culture Day. Love Letters: What are your favorite communication methods? Spiceworks.If your process is more than just a call or two, what about those later round interviews? There may be things like team member screenings or what we call technical screens, and even executive s. Last week we shared part 1 of the discussion on interviews. Nerd Journey # 206 - Revisiting the Foundations of Job Interviews, Part 2 Best Practices & General IT.If anybody can give some advice on how to get this printer going with the ATEN cable it will be greatly appreciated. Finally if I look at the 'Hardware' tab of the Properties for the ATEN I see a blue question mark next to the printer.ĭevice status is given as 'This device is working properly' however the simple fact is that nothing comes out of the printer, and there are spooler errors. Here is a screen capture of the ATENs Properties, and it can be clearly seen that there are several fields marked with 'unavailable'. As can be seen below Windows is showing the device as 'Unspecified', and in my experience this is 'rarely a good thing'!

At the moment I suspect that there may be an issue with the ATEN cable / adapter. Even though I have set the installed printer to use the Port outlined above I am getting printing errors. Finally I have configured the Port for the Virtual Printer with the EPSON software as shown below.

In Windows 7 I am confident that I have installed the correct EPSON printer, and additionally I have installed the EPSON Virtual Printer Driver.

Towards this end I have purchased and installed an ATEN UC-1284B USB to Parallel cable / converter. I am attempting to connect an EPSON TM-T88IIIP printer (which features a Parallel port) to a POS machine that only features USB ports.

Driver for usb to parallel