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Setting up a shared printer not in Add Printer Wizard
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Setting up a shared printer not in Add Printer Wizard
Monday, October 20, 2008 at 4:59 am
Posted by MikeB
(47 messages posted)
I am trying to set up a Windows ME desktop so that it can use an HP Officejet 6110
printer installed on another machine. The Add Printer Wizard lists only an Officejet
and an Officejet LX - selecting either of these allows prints to be made but only
in Black-and-White, with the printed test page stating that colour is not supported.
I have tried the "Have disk" option in the wizard and, after inserting the HP 6110
disk, can find a number of files of the form *.inf. However, every one of these results
in the error message that the selected file has no information about the hardware.
I have also tried downloading a set of driver files and this gets exactly the same
results (ie. the selected file contains no information about the hardware). Any suggestions
as to how to set up the ME machine?
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re: Setting up a shared printer not in Add Printer Wizard
Monday, October 20, 2008 at 8:38 am
Posted by Steve
(23810 messages posted)
I recently bought a HP Printer, and also couldn't get it to work over the Network
with a WinME Computer. What I do on the WinME PC now is just copy the Document to
the Computer with the Working Printer, then Print the Document from there.
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re: Setting up a shared printer not in Add Printer Wizard
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 2:23 am
Posted by DanTheMan
(140 messages posted)
do hp make driver for win me any more. probloy not
so u may be able to find a different priter driver for win me that works with all
type of printerrs
did u go to the hp website and see if theres any win me drivers
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re: Setting up a shared printer not in Add Printer Wizard
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 3:56 am
Posted by MikeB
(47 messages posted)
I have downloaded a driver from the web that is supposed to be ME compatible and
I think that the disc supplied with the printer also works with ME. The problem is
linking the driver to the printer, and assigning the printer to the ME machine. I
suspect that, if the printer was connected directly to the ME machine, I could probably
just run the setup disc and it would load properly. However, the printer is on another
machine and I can't see any way of adding the printer other than through the Add
Printer Wizard - this then fails as mentioned in my first post.
On Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 2:23 am, DanTheMan wrote:
>do hp make driver for win me any more. probloy not
>so u may be able to find a different priter driver for win me that works with all
>type of printerrs
>did u go to the hp website and see if theres any win me drivers
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re: Setting up a shared printer not in Add Printer Wizard
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 7:10 am
Posted by Steve
(23810 messages posted)
Try getting the Printer running by hooking it up to the problem computer. Once you
got the drivers installed, and working properly, then move the Printer Back to where
ever it was. You will probably need to run the add printer wizard on the ME computer
again to point it to the Network, but the driver will already be installed at least.
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re: Setting up a shared printer not in Add Printer Wizard
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 8:03 am
Posted by MikeB
(47 messages posted)
Steve,
I've tried this but the problem is that the Add Printer Wizard doesn't
list the Officejet 6110, only a simple Officejet and Officejet LX. Selecting either
of these allows prints to be made but only in monochrome which I assume is because
the Officejet 6110 driver isn't being picked up.
On Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 7:10 am, Steve wrote:
>Try getting the Printer running by hooking it up to the problem computer. Once you
>got the drivers installed, and working properly, then move the Printer Back to where
>ever it was. You will probably need to run the add printer wizard on the ME computer
>again to point it to the Network, but the driver will already be installed at least.
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re: Setting up a shared printer not in Add Printer Wizard
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 8:21 am
Posted by Steve
(23810 messages posted)
I don't have any more suggestions, other then to uninstall what you have done, and
try again.
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re: Setting up a shared printer not in Add Printer Wizard
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 10:37 am
Posted by MikeB
(47 messages posted)
Thanks anyway, Steve, I'll try going back to square one, as you suggest.
On Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 8:21 am, Steve wrote:
>I don't have any more suggestions, other then to uninstall what you have done, and
>try again.
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re: Setting up a shared printer not in Add Printer Wizard
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Posted by DanTheMan
(140 messages posted)
go to http://www.msfn.org/board/Windows-95-98-98SE-ME-f8.html
and tell them mabye they should be able to fix it there
good at fixing stuff
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