Windows 10: USB 2.0 printer won't work in Win 10/USB 3.0

It's a box you connect to your LAN , you connect your USB printer to the box and everyone prints to the box which then sends the job to your USB Printer...

For example... TP-Link TL-PS110U USB to Ethernet Print Server - Ebuyer

 

If you go USB print server...just make sure you get one that is USB 2.0 so your printer will work. Such as this one:

https://www.amazon.com/IOGEAR-1-Port.../dp/B000FW60FW

Let us know what you decide to do.

 

Many thanks! that's a good one but my second choice due to the rather remote location of printers from ethernet connection and my computer. But it definitely is an option for me once I've tried the more convenient option of a dedicated usb card in my computer.

 

Well, my saga goes on. I've purchased an adapter card and connected it to the USB 2.0 headers on my ASUS MB but still no signal to the printer............."printer is in error state". So I've sent for a PCI connected card to plug into my MB for USB 2.0 and I'll report in a couple of days how that went. (It's discouraging to contemplate throwing out a perfectly good label printer because of some glitch in windows 10) That's what I think is the problem, something now in the latest update of Win 10 that has interfered with backward compatibility of USB 3.0. I've read in other posts where a man had trouble with a brand new Brother label printer for the same USB reason.....but he blamed the printer model age as being too old for latest USB specs.

 

Skimmed and wasn't certain: have you checked for BIOS update for your board?

 

Thanks for the thought. The BIOS is current in my MB but I found a new chipset driver set and just installed it. No fast change however. Maybe I've got to reinstall the printer once again? Also, MS just updated Win 10 again a moment ago.......those updates scare me......disappearing apps, unexplained changes, etc.

 

Great suggestion on the "hook the printer to a Linux NAS" @jimbo45. For a Windows forum, you sure manage to steer things in the Linux/UNIX direction a lot. And just so you know, my first "real OS" was AT&T UNIX v5 which I administered on a PDP-11/70 at UT Austin in 1978 and 1979, working for Prof. Don Fussell.
Thanks,
--Ed--

 

I got the same problem after I restored and updated Windows 10, my Samsung ML2510 printer could not print from my Laptop saying USB2.0 device is not supported on USB3.0 port. I tried Samsung site to get a new driver. But, Samsung has sold the printer business to HP on Nov. 1st 2017. So, I simply downloaded a driver (for Windows 8 64 bits) from HP at
Support Search Results | HP® Customer Support

Ran the SPL.exe to extract the driver (10 files) into a folder. Ran the Setup.exe from the extracted folder and it fixed the problem.

 

Thanks for letting everyone know.

 

Hi there
another way often with older printers - especially if you have a Linux NAS type server is to connect the printer to the NAS server via a USB cable - CUPS (Linux default printing system) has probably zillions of drivers in it -- unlike say getting Sound to work in some cases I haven't yet seen a printer (certainly manufactured in the last 10 years or so) that doesn't work.

You then simply allow the printer to be shared on the network, define network printer on Windows and it should be fine -- the remote driver will do the printing and send it back to your Windows print queue.

Cheers
jimbo