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Old 04-08-2008   #9 (permalink)
Mitch


 
 

Re: cannot install Lexmark 3500 - 4500 series printer on Vista Ult

I fought this for a few hours last night myself. Vista Enterprise on my work
laptop. Originally I got a failure about being unable to create a port. I
uninstalled completely and tried again. The installer indicated it was
successful but I had no printer listed in the control panel. I went through
manually creating a TCP/IP type of port using the Lexmark "type"...that was
closer to working and eventually had me pick the .inf out of the extracted
drivers (none of which are labeled for Vista that I could tell). THEN I got
a failure notification that my admin had set a policy against using NT4.0
drivers (which is a work thing). BUT, is what Lexmark is claiming is the
Vista driver really just an old NT4 based XP driver???? Ridiculous. When
someone figures out what is so great about Vista please let me know.

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