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Re: Generic printer drivers
Microsoft does not develop drivers for third-party hardware.
They are obtained from the hardware manufacturer. If a printer
manufacturer chooses not to develop drivers, it is not the
fault of Microsoft. Microsoft provides detailed guidelines
to hardware manufacturers to develop drivers for Vista.
If a hardware (printer) manufacturer does not wish to fully
support its legacy products, then your issue is with the manufacturer.
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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows System & Performance
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"Tony29" wrote:
Given that there are many posts related to the eye-opening realisation that,
if you have a printer that works beautifully on XP (Or earlier) you will not
be guaranteed that same full functionality of the printer once you adopt
Vista, what is going to be done about it? I have an Epson CX3650 that Epson
state will never have a full functioning Vista driver developed by them - I
can no longer do draft prints (and a whole pile of other problems to which
people have already referred on this forum). So, who is our printer driver
supplier now - Microsoft?
It's no use saying - use the Microsoft auto install; use the drivers
supplied by the manufacturer - there is no tecnical solution to overcome this
disregard for the client community which is being demonstrated by Microsoft
in collaboration with printer manufacturers.
The question to the forum is - how do you get Microsoft to provide fully
functioning drivers for printers that they (for marketing purposes) want to
have in their pool of In-box drivers? Is there an anti-trust issue here?
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