I have an HP 842C attached to a Win XP Home machine. The XP is on a wifi network, with a laptop running XP Pro. I also have a Win98 hardwired into the network. Both XP machines can share printers no problem. Issue is when I try to install the printer and print from the Win98 machine. Network neighborhood sees the printer on the XP machine, installs fine. Just won't print. Try a testpage, immediate Cannot Print message comes up. Any clues?
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Eric, I have been able to install printer drivers
successfully only to find out afterward that, the
path to the network printer was incorrect. Did you
check the path of the connection on the Win98 machine?
(My computer, Printers, Rt Clk on the printer Icon,
Properties, Details, "print to the following port"
I suspect that is where the problem is. If you have
already checked that, I would open up the network 'hood
and make sure that you can see the computer that the
printer is attached to. If you have done both and
it all looks good, I would suggest a 1/2 LB block of
cast TNT : ) It fixes everything!!! ha Good luck. chx
successfully only to find out afterward that, the
path to the network printer was incorrect. Did you
check the path of the connection on the Win98 machine?
(My computer, Printers, Rt Clk on the printer Icon,
Properties, Details, "print to the following port"
I suspect that is where the problem is. If you have
already checked that, I would open up the network 'hood
and make sure that you can see the computer that the
printer is attached to. If you have done both and
it all looks good, I would suggest a 1/2 LB block of
cast TNT : ) It fixes everything!!! ha Good luck. chx
Eric, I just thought of one more thing that has
been the source of my problems in the past. IF your
printer uses an interface other than PARALLEL (LPTx,
(USB for instance), the Label for the port in the
PROPERITIES / DETAILS / ...PORT can be kind of cryptic.
Do check all the entries in that dropdown list. What
you need may not be as simple as :
//(workstation name)/(printer name)
Later. Chx
been the source of my problems in the past. IF your
printer uses an interface other than PARALLEL (LPTx
,(USB for instance), the Label for the port in the
PROPERITIES / DETAILS / ...PORT can be kind of cryptic.
Do check all the entries in that dropdown list. What
you need may not be as simple as :
//(workstation name)/(printer name)
Later. Chx
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finally. . .I got it, thanks to your help. I had to go in and install the shared network printer as a local printer, then go into the properties and map the port address. Works great. What a trick, and I never would have made it without you. Thanks!
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