I couldn't see a forum based purely on printing, so please redirect me if this is not the place to be. I've been searching for an answer to this for a while, but haven't been getting very far ...
Scenario: Vista 32bit Home Premium SP1 PC, with a Konica Minolta 2500w Magicolor printer via USB. All printing works fine from the desktop.
XP Laptop with SP3, all sitting together happily in a wireless network (workgroup called workgroup). File and printer sharing is turned on, and I can exchange files between laptop and desktop with no issues.
I can see and install the printer on the laptop, and I can print a test page (I had to turn bidirectional off to achieve this, or at least achieve this without restarting the print spooler every time). When I try to print from an application such as Word, I get an error to say that there was an error printing to the printer, check printer is installed properly, etc. If I try to print from notepad I get an error the handle is invalid. If I try to print from Wordpad, no errors, but no print job is created either.
I can continue to print test pages from the laptop even after receiving this error.
Within the Network and Sharing Centre, I can see the printer listed underneath my Vista desktop machine.
If I connect the printer directly to the laptop via the USB cable, the laptop can print from any application I choose.
Anybody come across anything similar, or have any suggestions?
Scenario: Vista 32bit Home Premium SP1 PC, with a Konica Minolta 2500w Magicolor printer via USB. All printing works fine from the desktop.
XP Laptop with SP3, all sitting together happily in a wireless network (workgroup called workgroup). File and printer sharing is turned on, and I can exchange files between laptop and desktop with no issues.
I can see and install the printer on the laptop, and I can print a test page (I had to turn bidirectional off to achieve this, or at least achieve this without restarting the print spooler every time). When I try to print from an application such as Word, I get an error to say that there was an error printing to the printer, check printer is installed properly, etc. If I try to print from notepad I get an error the handle is invalid. If I try to print from Wordpad, no errors, but no print job is created either.
I can continue to print test pages from the laptop even after receiving this error.
Within the Network and Sharing Centre, I can see the printer listed underneath my Vista desktop machine.
If I connect the printer directly to the laptop via the USB cable, the laptop can print from any application I choose.
Anybody come across anything similar, or have any suggestions?
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My Computer
System One
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- CPU
- AMD x2 Dual Core 3600+ 1.9GHz
- Motherboard
- GigaByte GA-M55SLI-S4
- Memory
- 2GB DDR PC2 5300 RAM
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVidia GeForce GTS 250 512mb