HP 1012 laserjet
Posted by admin on May 18th, 2007
Hi. This is my first post. Please be gentle! <g>I have a new toshiba laptop (A135S4487) which I LOVE!It came with Vista Home Premium. Also Windows Live OneCare purchased and installed. I have a little wireless network with a desktop running Windows xp Media Center hardwired. My old laptop, also a toshiba run windows xp. I have a print server (netgear) so that I don't have to the desktop powered on all the time to print from the old toshiba. I have an HPlaserjet 1012 printer.I could not set it up through Vista. HP does not have the new driver. Vista driver does not work. The CD stops installing even with User account control turned off.I WAS able, through this community, to set the printer to work on the vista laptop through the print server and the desktop I installed the new port and it is named for the desktop. But it has to be powered ON for me to print.Is there another way to do this so my desktop does not have to powered ON?Thank you very much!Sorry for the wordiness just wanted to be clear. Debbie
May 23rd, 2007 at 01:54 am
In article , Debbie wrote: You might try not letting the CD run on autoplay but to open it in My Computer and right mouse click on the autorun.exe file and select Run as Administrator.No idea if that would help in your case but it has helped me install other nonVISTA applications.
May 28th, 2007 at 03:05 am
Actually, that is the way I have to run it it does not start in autorun on its own it crashes later when it cannot find the print server it thinkBut thanks! Debbie "Hugh Wyn Griffith" wrote:
May 28th, 2007 at 08:44 pm
Have you installed a VISTA driver for the print server?kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101649.asp#vista_printserver I don't know much about using print servers so I hope someone else can help you.I would imagine you may have to make the printer and the print server shared?
May 30th, 2007 at 01:06 am
Debbie "Hugh Wyn Griffith" wrote: thank you again!
May 31st, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Thank you So much! It works, it works!!! I can now print through the server and not have to have the hardwired computer powered on. Again, thanks! Debbie "Hugh Wyn Griffith" wrote:
Jun 2nd, 2007 at 01:32 pm
Deeeelighted if only everything was so simple!