How to connect the DataMax ST-3210 thermal ticket printer?

Question

USB

Citizens, comrades, friends! Your help is needed more than ever!
I have a DataMax O'Neil ST3210 thermal ticket printer with USB/COM/LPT interfaces on my desk. There is a need to print to it via a direct connection via a serial or parallel port (COM / LPT, preferably via a serial one).
On the target PC (with Windows 7 on board) there is no additional COM connector as a class (more precisely, it is occupied by another device, that's not the point). We tried USB-Serial adapters on the CH340 chipset and tried the USB-Parallel connector on the Prolific PL2305.
When connected via USB-Serial, the standard software "Printer Configuration Utility" cannot connect to the printer under the excuse of not being able to recognize the response (in reality, only an echo is returned, there are no responses from the printer when sending basic diagnostic commands).
When connected via USB-Parallel, as we would like, the LPT port does not appear. Apparently, Prolific converts the connection to a USB type.
Actually Wishlist is to answer the questions: is it possible to connect this fool as a virtual LPT printer, having only a real lonely, but very proud USB connection? Or is it possible in a software way to organize a virtual COM connection to it? Or does it make sense to look for USB-Serial converters on chipsets other than CH340? (for example, according to Google on Prolific PL2303, or FTDI). Has anyone ever encountered similar dances around connecting the above device?

Answer 1

PL2303 is great for working directly, through the COM port
, it was through it that the ST3210 connected to machines without com ports on the mother.