Can't share my HP all in one printer with my new Vista machine

I have a K80xi all in one printer connected through USB to an XP host PC
("Host"). The Host is connect to a wireless network. I have multiple XP
laptops successfully sharing that printer on the wireless network, but I
distinctly recall having to load a separate driver (e.g., the driver for a
Deskjet 970C), not the K80xi driver, on each laptop in order to use the
shared printer. This is per directions from HP. I recently bought a Vista
desktop and have it also running on the same wireless network. File sharing
is working fine (e.g., from the Vista machine I can see shared files on the
Host). On the Vista machine I tried to connect to the K80xi over the
network. I was able to do this..in other words the Vista PC found the
printer on the Host (I have the Host mapped to a drive on the Vista PC). Per
HP, and like my laptops, I apparently need to load the Deskjet 990C driver on
the Vista PC to print to my K80xi. The problem appears to be that when I
"connect" to the K80xi I never get the opportunity to install the 990C driver
which I know to be resident in Vista. Instead, I am surmising, Vista assumes
that the K80xi driver needs to be loaded, which doesn't seem to work.
Somehow I have to uninstall the K80xi print driver, maybe even delete it from
my system, remove the K80xi connection, and repeat the connection such that
the add driver can't find the k80xi driver and asks me for some other driver
to install, upon which I'd select the 990C. Am I on the right track? If so,
how do I do all this?

RP

See:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/net.../vista_fp.mspx
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"RJP" <RJP@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6260A6E4-D089-4B4B-92B7-19BDBD068E7E@microsoft.com...
>I have a K80xi all in one printer connected through USB to an XP host PC
> ("Host"). The Host is connect to a wireless network. I have multiple XP
> laptops successfully sharing that printer on the wireless network, but I
> distinctly recall having to load a separate driver (e.g., the driver for a
> Deskjet 970C), not the K80xi driver, on each laptop in order to use the
> shared printer. This is per directions from HP. I recently bought a
> Vista
> desktop and have it also running on the same wireless network. File
> sharing
> is working fine (e.g., from the Vista machine I can see shared files on
> the
> Host). On the Vista machine I tried to connect to the K80xi over the
> network. I was able to do this..in other words the Vista PC found the
> printer on the Host (I have the Host mapped to a drive on the Vista PC).
> Per
> HP, and like my laptops, I apparently need to load the Deskjet 990C driver
> on
> the Vista PC to print to my K80xi. The problem appears to be that when I
> "connect" to the K80xi I never get the opportunity to install the 990C
> driver
> which I know to be resident in Vista. Instead, I am surmising, Vista
> assumes
> that the K80xi driver needs to be loaded, which doesn't seem to work.
> Somehow I have to uninstall the K80xi print driver, maybe even delete it
> from
> my system, remove the K80xi connection, and repeat the connection such
> that
> the add driver can't find the k80xi driver and asks me for some other
> driver
> to install, upon which I'd select the 990C. Am I on the right track? If
> so,
> how do I do all this?
>
> RP