In article , "Warren"
wrote:
I've successfuly installed a network printserver connected to the parallel
port of my printer, but I'm stuck at the last step of installing the printer
driver for the printer. I can define the printer port on the network but
when I go to install the printer driver using the Printer Wizard, my Windows
98SE doesn't have the Deskjet 722C driver, so I have to select "Have Disk".
When I insert the HP disk it finds the driver on the disk but won't let me
install the driver, saying I have to install the printer driver using the
setup.exe file. Unfortunately the HP setup.exe only seems to provide
options for connecting through my PC's parallel port and gives no option
for driving through a network connection. I could try typing in the network
port name over the LPT1 name in the HPsetup.exe wizard, but I have my doubts
the HP wizard will accept it.
Why not try it and see?
So close but so far. Anybody got any suggestions on where I can get a
printer driver for an HP Deskjet 722C that will allow me to install through
the Add Printer Wizard. Or is there another way around this problem I think
I have.
Thanks in advance for your time.
You could connect the printer directly to the parallel port, install
it as a local printer, then connect the print server and change the
printer's port assignment.
Yes I did that, my printer driver was installed to print to LPT1 and I tried
to caputure LPT1 to my network print server port \\192.168.0.10\ps-xxxxxx-p1
, but no joy. I assume that's what you meant
It seems there may be a basic incompatibility of the print server(D-Link
DP-G301) with my printer (HP Deskjet 722C). I'm thinking this because I can
log into my print server and perform a print test and it won't print the
test page. Seems like that is where the problem lies.
I don't think that Windows 98 can access a print server using its IP
address. Windows XP can, through a "Standard TCP/IP Port".
If the print server supports Windows 98, it should have come with
software that you can install and run to create a new port that uses
the print server.
Windows 98 isn't listed on this D-Link DP-G301 web page, however:
http://support.dlink.com/products/vi...ctid=DP%2DG301
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