Right - thank you... so is there anything I can do to stop this from
happening?!
"Alan Morris [MSFT]" wrote:
Quote:
> This is typically caused when the device vendor does not supply a serial
> number in the data stream from the device so the OS never knows it not the
> same device.
>
> --
> Alan Morris
> Windows Printing Team
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>
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> "David Croxson" <DavidCroxson@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C8A89C6E-E419-473D-A43D-5E1E974FF4F3@xxxxxx Quote:
> >
> > I have a laptop so don't always have the printer connected to it.
> > Whenever
> > I do connect the printer, Vista goes off and searches for a driver
> > (depsite
> > it already having one). It downloads and installs a copy of the printer
> > driver. When I try and print from Word or whatever, it sends to the
> > latest
> > copy of the printer, which isn't of course the default! So nothing prints
> > and I get an error in the print queue. The only way I've found to sort
> > the
> > problem is each time to go into control panel, delete the old printer and
> > set
> > up the newest one as the default.
> >
> > Apart from anything else it's driving my missus crazy because she cannot
> > get
> > her head around what's going on!
> >
> > Is there a way of stopping this from happening? Does it matter which USB
> > port I connect the printer to?
> >
> > Details:
> > PC Toshiba Equium A100-337 laptop running Vista
> > Printer Samsung ML-1210
> >
> > Many thanks,
>
>
>