hhawkman
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join:2001-02-08
Port Hueneme, CA
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| [WIN7] HP Deskjet 820Cse Network Printer
I am evaluating Win 7 on my home network. It installed fine, and detected all my hardware with no problems.
Now when I try to add a networked Printer from my network (on an XP Machine) to Win 7, I finds it on the network then Prompts me for an INF file. Vista didn't have that problem. I went to HP website and they say there isn't a specific Win7 Driver for the printer, but If I plug in the USB cable, it should detect it and use a generic HP Driver.
2 Things wrong with that.
1. Network Printer.
2. Parallel Interface on Printer. and no parallel port on Win7 Machine.
Any Ideas how I can Connect to this printer? |
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trparky
Bite My Shiny Metal Ass
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join:2000-05-24
Cleveland, OH
clubs: | Go to manually add a network printer and then have it search Windows Update for drivers. That's what HP suggests to do.
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hhawkman
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Port Hueneme, CA
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| said by trparky  :Go to manually add a network printer and then have it search Windows Update for drivers. That's what HP suggests to do. Yeah, but the problem is that adding a printer doesn't give you that option.
I found a solution by adding a local printer and creating a port to //machinename/share
It gave me the option to go to search Windows Update and download the driver.
once the driver was loaded, I removed the printer, and re-added it.
It gets kind of goofy here, as it showed the printer was there, but couldn't connect or print to it.
I went back and forth from machine to machine. I even tried going into Virtual PC in XP mode. I was able to add it there "normally", but it still didn't work, though this time I was able to cancel the print Job remotely. I looked at the properties from VPC/XP, and it showed the printer as connected to the new port I created. I changed it back to LPT1:, and it started working.
Exit VPC/XP, and did the same to WIN7. It started working as well.
I'd love to give credit to whoever pointed me in the right direction, but I can't find where I got it from. |
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