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Rhia Knowles wrote:
Strange, I had very few problems[1] installing my networked printer to Windows 7.Switch to Windows and ohh boy, have we got problems. 1)inform windows we wish to install a new printer. 2)Get annoying wizard popping up to 'help' 3) it doesnt find it as a networked printer, so install as a local one with a TCP/IP port at <ip address> 4)Machine has never seen this printer before this, so doesnt have drivers for it. Ok not a problem. Download drivers from HP (10 mins, on broadband!...zzzzz) 5)Drivers wont install without seeing the printer physically connected, so connect printer via USB 6)change port on newly installed printer to TCP/IP at <ip address> 7) print test page. 8)notice test page resembles morse code, change print quality up in Windows and clean the heads until text is readable again.
1. Go to Printers and fire up wizard to install network printer. Now, mine is on a USB port off my NAS drive which may be why I had any problems at all.
2. Windows can't find a printer on the network - see 1 for possible reason.3. Install printer [Epson Stylus Photo R300] as local printer. Tell it to stop searching and just install it. Installs fine as Windows has the driver already. From experience a lot of the time installing a network printer Windows will accept a printer it can't find being installed and does - for once - accept the user knows best. I don't know why yours was so stubborn Rhia, maybe it's an HP thing? 4. Go to Printer Properties - Ports. Add a new TCP/IP port with my NAS drive's IP address and attach printer to it[2].
5. Print test page - job done. Kind regards, Julian [1] Note: I didn't say 'no problems'.[2] To be absolutely fair I had done this before as the NAS drive came with explicit instructions on how to do it.
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