My Laptop Isn't Connecting With My Printer via the USB. If you have a printer hooked up to your company laptop via a USB cable but are unable to print, there are several potential solutions.

Older printers connect to computers via a parallel cable. For the past several years, the USB connection has replaced the parallel connection for the vast majority of printers.

Brother is warning that many of their printers may no longer work or display errors when using a USB connection in Windows 11.

I made some mistakes learning how to use the $300 Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3D printer, but it didn't take me long to make my first part.

For now, Microsoft recommends connecting a powered-on USB printer before starting Windows to avoid the issue, but it is planning to release a Windows update in future that fixes the problem.