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02-08-2008
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| | HP 7960 - Workgroup Printing not sharing Hello! Using HP Photosmart 7960 as shared printer off of XP Pro SP2 machine. Works great for the other XP machines that share it. Tried to connect (via network share) my (new) 64Bit Vista Home Premium box to this printer. Of course, it asked for the Vista printer drivers, which do exist. So, the challenge - the drivers won't install on the XP machine, as they are Vista drivers and error out (simple message saying wrong OS). Installed the drivers on the Vista machine, which should solve the problem...it didn't. Went thru both HP directories (under x86 programs) looking for the *.inf files and according to Vista, none of them are correct. I've tried them all. Any ideas or help is appreciated! Thanks! David. |
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02-08-2008
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| | Re: HP 7960 - Workgroup Printing not sharing Which drivers did you install on the Vista PC. It's looking for 64 bit drivers which you need on the Vista PC, not 32 bit ones. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/windows "David B" <David B@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:2E17F15D-5B6B-4F1C-91D2-92FA6E5FCCE1@xxxxxx Quote: > Hello! Using HP Photosmart 7960 as shared printer off of XP Pro SP2 > machine. > Works great for the other XP machines that share it. Tried to connect > (via > network share) my (new) 64Bit Vista Home Premium box to this printer. Of > course, it asked for the Vista printer drivers, which do exist. > > So, the challenge - the drivers won't install on the XP machine, as they > are > Vista drivers and error out (simple message saying wrong OS). Installed > the > drivers on the Vista machine, which should solve the problem...it didn't. > Went thru both HP directories (under x86 programs) looking for the *.inf > files and according to Vista, none of them are correct. I've tried them > all. > > Any ideas or help is appreciated! Thanks! David. > > |
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02-09-2008
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| | Re: HP 7960 - Workgroup Printing not sharing Of course I installed the 64bit drivers!  The .inf files don't seem to be under the HP directories. "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: Quote: > Which drivers did you install on the Vista PC. It's looking for 64 bit > drivers which you need on the Vista PC, not 32 bit ones. > -- > Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging > www.coribright.com/windows > > "David B" <David B@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:2E17F15D-5B6B-4F1C-91D2-92FA6E5FCCE1@xxxxxx Quote: > > Hello! Using HP Photosmart 7960 as shared printer off of XP Pro SP2 > > machine. > > Works great for the other XP machines that share it. Tried to connect > > (via > > network share) my (new) 64Bit Vista Home Premium box to this printer. Of > > course, it asked for the Vista printer drivers, which do exist. > > > > So, the challenge - the drivers won't install on the XP machine, as they > > are > > Vista drivers and error out (simple message saying wrong OS). Installed > > the > > drivers on the Vista machine, which should solve the problem...it didn't. > > Went thru both HP directories (under x86 programs) looking for the *.inf > > files and according to Vista, none of them are correct. I've tried them > > all. > > > > Any ideas or help is appreciated! Thanks! David. > > > > |
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03-31-2008
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| VISTA 64 | Re: HP 7960 - Workgroup Printing not sharing I have this exact same problem, does anyone have an answer? |
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