printing to centronics printer from USB

All these days, I was printing to the MSP 345 24-pin Epson compatible printer from my laptop over the network, since the laptop did not have a parallel port. Today I tried out a USB-36-pin Centronics cable, so that I can directly print from the laptop which has only USB ports to the parallel port only printer without having to switch on another machine. Installing drivers had to be done manually, and at the point in the Wizard where Windows asks you for the port, you have to choose USB001 (Virtual Printer Port for USB) as given at this page. Then everything works fine.