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| | Trouble printing to network printer I'm trying to print from my laptop to an HP Deskjet 932 attached to my desktop, with no success. - I'm using Home Premium; the desktop runs XP - network printing worked okay when my laptop ran XP - I have had no other Vista problems over six months - the printer works just fine from the desktop machine - the printer is shared, and is the default - the printer shows up just fine as the network printer when I try to print from my laptop - I can look at print preferences okay - if I try to look at printer properties, a window (or dialog box) flits open/closed on the laptop screen - no print file gets through to the print queue Any help would be appreciated! Art -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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| | Re: Trouble printing to network printer -- Follow-up I saw a suggestion in this newsgroup to add a local port directed to //desktop/hp_deskjet, so I did this ...and now I have a functioning network printer again! Does this mean that the problem lies in incompatible printer drivers? (ie, the XP driver on my desktop, and the Vista driver on my laptop)? I haven't tried another suggestion to install the Vista printer driver on the XP desktop. Maybe that would work, too? Thanks for the suggestion. Art Art wrote: Quote: > I'm trying to print from my laptop to an HP Deskjet 932 attached > to my desktop, with no success. > > - I'm using Home Premium; the desktop runs XP > - network printing worked okay when my laptop ran XP > - I have had no other Vista problems over six months > - the printer works just fine from the desktop machine > - the printer is shared, and is the default > - the printer shows up just fine as the network printer > when I try to print from my laptop > - I can look at print preferences okay > - if I try to look at printer properties, a window (or > dialog box) flits open/closed on the laptop screen > - no print file gets through to the print queue > > Any help would be appreciated! > > Art > |
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| | Re: Trouble printing to network printer -- Follow-up Usually when the Preferences page does not load this is a driver issue. -- Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Art" <anacharb.remove@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:aLbEi.22496$Pd4.18809@xxxxxx Quote: >I saw a suggestion in this newsgroup to add a local port > directed to //desktop/hp_deskjet, so I did this ...and > now I have a functioning network printer again! > > Does this mean that the problem lies in incompatible > printer drivers? (ie, the XP driver on my desktop, and > the Vista driver on my laptop)? > > I haven't tried another suggestion to install the Vista > printer driver on the XP desktop. Maybe that would work, too? > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > Art > > Art wrote: Quote: >> I'm trying to print from my laptop to an HP Deskjet 932 attached >> to my desktop, with no success. >> >> - I'm using Home Premium; the desktop runs XP >> - network printing worked okay when my laptop ran XP >> - I have had no other Vista problems over six months >> - the printer works just fine from the desktop machine >> - the printer is shared, and is the default >> - the printer shows up just fine as the network printer >> when I try to print from my laptop >> - I can look at print preferences okay >> - if I try to look at printer properties, a window (or >> dialog box) flits open/closed on the laptop screen >> - no print file gets through to the print queue >> >> Any help would be appreciated! >> >> Art >> |
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| | Re: Trouble printing to network printer -- Follow-up Art I have the same problem as you (vista laptop printing over wireless network to HP connected to a desktop running XP). Your solution sounds like it would work for me. How do you add a port? -- Thanks, Tom "Art" wrote: Quote: > I saw a suggestion in this newsgroup to add a local port > directed to //desktop/hp_deskjet, so I did this ...and > now I have a functioning network printer again! > > Does this mean that the problem lies in incompatible > printer drivers? (ie, the XP driver on my desktop, and > the Vista driver on my laptop)? > > I haven't tried another suggestion to install the Vista > printer driver on the XP desktop. Maybe that would work, too? > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > Art > > Art wrote: Quote: > > I'm trying to print from my laptop to an HP Deskjet 932 attached > > to my desktop, with no success. > > > > - I'm using Home Premium; the desktop runs XP > > - network printing worked okay when my laptop ran XP > > - I have had no other Vista problems over six months > > - the printer works just fine from the desktop machine > > - the printer is shared, and is the default > > - the printer shows up just fine as the network printer > > when I try to print from my laptop > > - I can look at print preferences okay > > - if I try to look at printer properties, a window (or > > dialog box) flits open/closed on the laptop screen > > - no print file gets through to the print queue > > > > Any help would be appreciated! > > > > Art > > |
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| | Re: Trouble printing to network printer -- Follow-up Hi Tom, Here's the procedure: - Go to Control Panel > Printers - Click on "Add a printer" in title bar - Click on "Add a local printer" - Select "Create a new port" - With "Local Port" selected, click on "Next" - Fill "Enter a port name" with: - \\desktopname\printersharename (in my case \\arts_vaio\printer5)") - Click on "Next" and finish This worked for me, but, just for the experience I might try installing a Vista driver in my Vista machine. Art tom wrote: Quote: > Art > > I have the same problem as you (vista laptop printing over wireless network > to HP connected to a desktop running XP). Your solution sounds like it would > work for me. How do you add a port? |
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