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Am I ready to go Mac-only?
The same, unfortunately, is true for almost every other kind of hardware requiring specific drivers. A lot of modern printers "just work" with older printer drivers of similar models, so if you wind up stuck with something not on the list you might at least try it. Then, if it works, send a note to

S: which drivers for old HP 2275 deskjet printer under Windows ...
Windows XP had the drivers for both printers but I could not get either printer to work properly. Are older printers made obsolete under Windows XP? No. Either of those should work if you use USB connections. Do *not* try to use a disk of drivers that come with the printer - ones for either of those are pre-XP and

mac drivers for old Epson Stylus Colour printer
I was hoping the problem would be a bi-directional setting in the driver like on the old desk jet printers (but no luck there.) I can't find any useful article in the MS KB and even less on the Samsung and Xerox support sites. To start with there was a rights issue which I have resolved but this connectivity

Epson or HP
Although graphics displayed fine, my old HP inkjet 1200 (don't have it anymore) steadfastly refused to print certain kinds of graphic elements. When I switched to an older printer driver, it suddenly worked fine. HP eventually released a driver that fixed the problem. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007

DJ500 dead after >= 16 years.
It didn't So now: $300 printer that won't work with Office $150 in Office software that won't print, and an unneeded upgrade. This is just unacceptable in my book. If Xerox' drivers really are over a year old, I would be extremely suspicious of them. OS X has acquired quite a few new tricks since then.

Drivers Daily Log for the Pocket PC
Gary Woodruff MS MVP-DTS (Win XP) "That'll be the day" - John Wayne in The Searchers Paul Matthews wrote: The printer I'm using is a Lexmark Z52. I Win XP under "Printers & Faxes" you can select "Additional Drivers" for older versions of Windows. However, when I attempt add print drivers from either the Lexmark CD

Very Slow Printing -
Jordan House JordanHo...@EverestKC.net microsoft public windowsxp print_fax Problem 1: Various printer manufacturers have inconvenienced us all by making several models last in excess of four years. Problem 2: Where is the profit in writing hundreds of new drivers for old printers everytime we sell a new OS to OEMs

Older printers drivers
I'm looking for Photo 750 support in XP, but I may actually change printers anyways. Does anyone have the scoop on when or if Epson is coming out with XP drivers for older printers, and not just their latest ones? I think it's odd that they don't have any yet seeing they have support for 2000, and it isn't exactly

Printer problem with Vista x64, maybe
Secondly, the printer driver tends to be a problem as you said, with older printers with newer software. However, printer drivers needed for dtp or graphic intensive software is demanding more and more each day. So, we can agree, I would hope, that older printers with newer software, and everyday changing graphic

works 2006 and new hp color printer.
I already went through all the "Latest Driver" stuff with Dell, including doing a reformat/reinstall of everything to finall purge all vestiges of old printer drivers. The drivers I have installed come from the site you provided the link to. This has successfully solved all my printing problems with MS Office and

WIN95 printer drivers for older printers: A SUGGESTION.
Ben Smith ben-sm...@remove.this.charter.net. novell support os server printing ndps-neps Hello, We're currently attempting to package drivers in to NDPS objects of older HP printers, such as the IIIsi, etc. The individual drivers cannot be downloaded from HP any more, so what technique has been used to load the

Samsung ML4500
Andy Dingley ding...@codesmiths.com misc consumers frugal-living "son of mad" <ra...@wsu.edu> a crit : i have a deskjet 500 that i can't find updated drivers for, You don't really need specific drivers for a DeskJet 500, or other older printers. Printers used to understand strings of characters, and just print out

Dot Matrix Printer from access 2000?!?
My old deskjet used gs as a filter to print PostScript. Do we have any such plugin support, or are printers still roll-your-own? ghostscript-gnu make install Deselect all the printers, leave in stp and ijs driver, as well as all the X-windows drivers and the jpg and other image drivers. test the ghostscript

Problem Printing Word 2008 Doc with Xerox Phaser 6110
It came down to settings within the Printer driver itself. One setting was obvious - Use Printer Fonts. The other setting was I think linked to the current selection for resolution. I believe I had to reduce the resolution setting in order to get the same exact font and printing speed as on the old printers.

HP Deskjet Printers - Locating Drivers and Software]
The printer is only 2 years old (still on the original toner) and the all-in-one is less than a year old (still on original ink). I print very little (but scan I dount the printer/scanner is made by Dell, it'll be badge engineered most likely. If you can find what it is, you might be able to find the drivers.

Overstocked with Vista?
Kenneth Miller ke...@worldnet.att.net microsoft public windowsxp hardware It isn't that HP thinks that it a waste of time to write new drivers. Rather it is simple greed on their part. The older printers use ink cartridges that hold more ink (Example my HP DeskJet 722C's Black cartridges holds 42 ml and is

need printer driver for PC(win95)->SparcPrinter ???
Double Diamond raytl...@xxcomcast.net microsoft public windowsxp general Recently I have tried to set up an HP Deskjet 895C and an HP Deskjet 855C to different Windows XP computers. Windows XP had the drivers for both printers but I could not get either printer to work properly. Are older printers made obsolete

Using a parallel input printer on a USB port?
The printer uses parallel connection then a cable to convert the parallel to USB (which uses a driver). This printer used to work, with XP and older computer that used the parallel port, very fast. Once I started using Vista with that cable in between the printer and the compter, printing is very SLOW.

Printer drivers for newer printers
Well, with all due respect, complaints like these of "old" hardware (7 year old printers, etc.) not functioning seem a bit of asking for too much. Isn't that really more a matter of the hardware manufacturers not making Vista drivers anyway? At home its different: I only have 1 GB of RAM (the work PC has 2),

The size is not right when printing.
First I thought that by going to Control Panel>> Hardware and Sound >> Printer>> And right clicking properties you could uninstall drivers. At leas to my recollection it was the case XP. It does not seem to be the case in Vista. What I suggest is this. Obviously you know the old printer's maker.