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Old 09-30-2006   #1 (permalink)
jwardl


 
 

Samsung CLP-500 Printer

I'd been really frustrated that there was no Windows driver available for
this printer. No idea if Samsung intends to provide one at some point or
not.

That said, I saw in one of these groups where another user had simply loaded
the old XP driver for a completely different Samsung printer, and it worked.

I figured, it's a test system -- what the he**. Surprisingly, IT WORKS.

Alas, this wasn't the case for my older HP flatbed scanner. So, while it
*may* work for some items, it's not universally true for everything. Any of
you who are lacking Vista drivers for anything, however -- give it a try.
Vista seems to be solid enough at this point that an incompatible driver
won't totally hose the OS -- though, YMMV.

Note that this won't work for those going from 32 to 64 bit, of course. A 64
bit OS needs 64 bit drivers.

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