Network Issues with HP Universal Printer Driver for Vista, Version

As some of you may know, HP recently released 3 new universal print drivers
for Vista: for PCL 5, PCL 6 and PostScript. I've actually been in search of a
solution, as I had been unable to use my recently purchased P2015dn network
ready LaserJet from a new laptop with factory installed Vista. Supposedly
this is HPs long term solution to cover many printers with one set of
drivers. My problem is that although the driver appears to have installed
without an issue, and I can find my printer on the network through the
driver's search capability, when I go to print, it says the printer is no
longer available. Has anyone had success in using HP's Universal Print Driver
over a network? Any suggestions on a work around?

"Global T" <Global T@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8A5BD366-8F71-4B98-A482-F5D6850E8DC9@microsoft.com...
> As some of you may know, HP recently released 3 new universal print
> drivers
> for Vista: for PCL 5, PCL 6 and PostScript. I've actually been in search
> of a
> solution, as I had been unable to use my recently purchased P2015dn
> network
> ready LaserJet from a new laptop with factory installed Vista. Supposedly
> this is HPs long term solution to cover many printers with one set of
> drivers. My problem is that although the driver appears to have installed
> without an issue, and I can find my printer on the network through the
> driver's search capability, when I go to print, it says the printer is no
> longer available. Has anyone had success in using HP's Universal Print
> Driver
> over a network? Any suggestions on a work around?

The driver failed to install for me too.
The universal printer appeared in the printers folder, but crashes explorer
with a fault in colorui.dll if you attempt to accerr the printer properties.

Seems truly half-baked.

Wait for better drivers.

--
Ron

Thanks for the confirmation that I am not alone in my struggles with this
printer driver -- although I'm surprised that I haven't seen more discussion
about it.

I am amazed however that HP isn't more on top of this. As Vista slowly
increases market penetration, the inability to use many legacy HP printers
with it, including models just released over the last year or so, is clearly
going to negatively impact their market reputation.

"Ron Lowe" wrote:

>
> "Global T" <Global T@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8A5BD366-8F71-4B98-A482-F5D6850E8DC9@microsoft.com...
> > As some of you may know, HP recently released 3 new universal print
> > drivers
> > for Vista: for PCL 5, PCL 6 and PostScript. I've actually been in search
> > of a
> > solution, as I had been unable to use my recently purchased P2015dn
> > network
> > ready LaserJet from a new laptop with factory installed Vista. Supposedly
> > this is HPs long term solution to cover many printers with one set of
> > drivers. My problem is that although the driver appears to have installed
> > without an issue, and I can find my printer on the network through the
> > driver's search capability, when I go to print, it says the printer is no
> > longer available. Has anyone had success in using HP's Universal Print
> > Driver
> > over a network? Any suggestions on a work around?
>
> The driver failed to install for me too.
> The universal printer appeared in the printers folder, but crashes explorer
> with a fault in colorui.dll if you attempt to accerr the printer properties.
>
> Seems truly half-baked.
>
> Wait for better drivers.
>
> --
> Ron
>
>