"The port is used by another device. Printer does not print.

I have a printer Canon D661 on an Ispiron Dell s 545 under Win XP SP3.  Everything worked fine until today when he leaves the impression.  I have uninstalled/reinstalled the printer through Windows and through the uninstalling Canon.

I have downloaded the latest drivers from Canon, did all my XP, updates my Dell updates driver material and restarted several times than I can count in the process.

I've stopped and started the print spooler.

Still nothing will print.  The printer status window insists that "the port is used by another device.

I ran impression of Microsoft Diagnostic tool, he says that's all right.

It is a USB port, as the mouse and keyboard.  Nothing else.  I tried swapping USB ports between elements, no help.

The printer works fine if I plug it into my USB netbook, so it's not the printer.

I receive the error message even if the printer is connected to the office he "belongs" to.

Until yesterday it worked fine, same print network jobs on other computers.

I went home from 11:00 to 18:30 today.  Help?

Thanks for the reply!

I tried what you suggested, but it did not work.

Finally, I got it going.  For some reason even if it was still installed on LPT1 on that question and two other computers, this computer has stopped working.

I found the installer was not obvious choice to install on USB1 and that was when he started working.

Interestingly, it works installed on LPT1 on two laptop computers when it is connected in fact on their USB ports.

Thanks again.

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