Vista - Print hangs in cue when printing Vistax64 to XP

airbusguy · 01-09-2009

Hope someone can help.

Here are the system details: Laptop- HP with Vista Home Premium x64 printing to a HP desktop with XP x32 and a Lexmark 8350 all in one. Print share is enabled on both as well as bidirectional support.

I've tried all remedies in the posts to get Vista x64 to print to xp desktop with printer. Here's what I have. When I print to the networked printer the print job window opens with the print job visible. After a time I get and "unable to communicate" message and the job wont complete. The local port path is correct. I have tried the manual addition of the port with the network path to the printer as well as downloading of the Vista x64 driver from Lexmark. The Lexmark driver install program does fine and can install the driver and locate the networked printer. It seems that something is blocking the communication between the two systems.

Any Ideas?

01-09-2009

What firewall software and antivirus software are you running... on both
PCs?
--
Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/windows

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Quote:

>
> Hope someone can help.
>
> Here are the system details: Laptop- HP with Vista Home Premium x64
> printing to a HP desktop with XP x32 and a Lexmark 8350 all in one.
> Print share is enabled on both as well as bidirectional support.
>
> I've tried all remedies in the posts to get Vista x64 to print to xp
> desktop with printer. Here's what I have. When I print to the
> networked printer the print job window opens with the print job visible.
> After a time I get and "unable to communicate" message and the job wont
> complete. The local port path is correct. I have tried the manual
> addition of the port with the network path to the printer as well as
> downloading of the Vista x64 driver from Lexmark. The Lexmark driver
> install program does fine and can install the driver and locate the
> networked printer. It seems that something is blocking the
> communication between the two systems.
>
> Any Ideas?
>
>
> --
> airbusguy

airbusguy · 01-11-2009

Hi,

I'm running just the microsoft firewalls on both. I've tried to print with both on and both off. Each computer has printer share enabled.

01-09-2009	#1 (permalink)
airbusguy home premium vista x64 2 posts	Print hangs in cue when printing Vistax64 to XP Hope someone can help. Here are the system details: Laptop- HP with Vista Home Premium x64 printing to a HP desktop with XP x32 and a Lexmark 8350 all in one. Print share is enabled on both as well as bidirectional support. I've tried all remedies in the posts to get Vista x64 to print to xp desktop with printer. Here's what I have. When I print to the networked printer the print job window opens with the print job visible. After a time I get and "unable to communicate" message and the job wont complete. The local port path is correct. I have tried the manual addition of the port with the network path to the printer as well as downloading of the Vista x64 driver from Lexmark. The Lexmark driver install program does fine and can install the driver and locate the networked printer. It seems that something is blocking the communication between the two systems. Any Ideas?
My System Specs

01-09-2009	#2 (permalink)
Cari \(MS-MVP\) n/a posts	Re: Print hangs in cue when printing Vistax64 to XP What firewall software and antivirus software are you running... on both PCs? -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/windows "airbusguy" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:5cd0351aaca38ad060d5830720aff230@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > Hope someone can help. > > Here are the system details: Laptop- HP with Vista Home Premium x64 > printing to a HP desktop with XP x32 and a Lexmark 8350 all in one. > Print share is enabled on both as well as bidirectional support. > > I've tried all remedies in the posts to get Vista x64 to print to xp > desktop with printer. Here's what I have. When I print to the > networked printer the print job window opens with the print job visible. > After a time I get and "unable to communicate" message and the job wont > complete. The local port path is correct. I have tried the manual > addition of the port with the network path to the printer as well as > downloading of the Vista x64 driver from Lexmark. The Lexmark driver > install program does fine and can install the driver and locate the > networked printer. It seems that something is blocking the > communication between the two systems. > > Any Ideas? > > > -- > airbusguy
My System Specs

01-11-2009	#3 (permalink)
airbusguy home premium vista x64 2 posts	Re: Print hangs in cue when printing Vistax64 to XP Hi, I'm running just the microsoft firewalls on both. I've tried to print with both on and both off. Each computer has printer share enabled.
My System Specs

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