Dot matrix printer on Windows 10 using USB-to-parallel cable not working as expected

I'm trying to connect an OKI microline 3390 24-pin dot matrix printer to a windows 10 laptop, mainly to print PDFs. The printer only has a centronics 36-pin parallel port and the laptop only a USB one, so I use a (bidirectional) usb-to-parallel cable. When I plug in the cable, unconnected to the printer: A device called USB2.0-Print shows up under unspecified in the Devices and Printers part of the control panel. Two new devices show up in the device manager under Universal Serial Bus controllers : No Printer Attached and USB Printing Support . The latter has a property Bus relations pointing

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