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Printer Driver - keeps installing copies of driver
  1. #1


    David Croxson Guest

    Printer Driver - keeps installing copies of driver


    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,

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

  2. #2


    Alan Morris [MSFT] Guest

    Re: Printer Driver - keeps installing copies of driver

    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
    Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
    http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1

    This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

    "David Croxson" <DavidCroxson@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    news:C8A89C6E-E419-473D-A43D-5E1E974FF4F3@xxxxxx

    >
    > 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,


      My System SpecsSystem Spec

  3. #3


    David Croxson Guest

    Re: Printer Driver - keeps installing copies of driver

    Right - thank you... so is there anything I can do to stop this from
    happening?!

    "Alan Morris [MSFT]" wrote:

    > 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
    > Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
    > http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1
    >
    > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
    >
    > "David Croxson" <DavidCroxson@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    > news:C8A89C6E-E419-473D-A43D-5E1E974FF4F3@xxxxxx

    > >
    > > 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,
    >
    >
    >

      My System SpecsSystem Spec

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