Windows 8 network printer

blackbox

I am having difficulties getting a remote network printer set up on my new Windows 8 64 bit PC.

I have an old XP pc that I use as a print server, it has a Canon inkjet and a HP LJ1200 connected to it by USB. These printers are set up for sharing.

All other computers in the household use these printers successfully from various OS: XP, Vista, W7 and Mac OS.

I did the "add printers" thing on W8 and it found both printers. Canon installed no problem. However, it could not find a driver for the LJ1200.

I went to the HP website to look for a W8 driver. They recommended (and only offered) a universal print driver for W8 X64. I downloaded this and tried again.

This time it still didn't find the driver, but found the folder where the new drivers were installed to, looking for a .INF file. There were several of these but none would work.

I then tried connecting the printer directly to the W8 PC and it installed no problem and worked perfectly. I thought that now that the drivers were found it should work over the network.

However, when re-tried over the network, got exactly the same problems as before.

NB I tried both PCL and PS drivers.

I'm kind of out of ideas, so any suggestions would be welcome.

Capt'n Midnight

Try a compatible driver - see what the LJ will use

does windows 8 still have the HP Deskjet (no number) this is a mono driver and a good place to start


NB. Some HP's don't emulate other printers and all you can do is install something like pdfcreator and then generate pdf files that another computer could print


http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=115&prodSeriesId=29789&prodTypeId=18972&objectID=c03365145

efourc

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Try a compatible driver - see what the LJ will use

does windows 8 still have the HP Deskjet (no number) this is a mono driver and a good place to start


NB. Some HP's don't emulate other printers and all you can do is install something like pdfcreator and then generate pdf files that another computer could print


http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=115&prodSeriesId=29789&prodTypeId=18972&objectID=c03365145

Set it up as a local port i.e. \\remote pc name\printer name
Had this issue last week works perfect

efourc

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Try a compatible driver - see what the LJ will use

does windows 8 still have the HP Deskjet (no number) this is a mono driver and a good place to start


NB. Some HP's don't emulate other printers and all you can do is install something like pdfcreator and then generate pdf files that another computer could print


http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=115&prodSeriesId=29789&prodTypeId=18972&objectID=c03365145

Set it up as a local port i.e. \\remote pc name\printer name
Had this issue last week works perfect

blackbox

Thanks efourc.

I'll give that a go and let you know how I get on. Was yours the same printer?

BB

blackbox

Setting it as a local printer specifying the network port did the job.

Thanks efourc

efourc

blackbox wrote: »

Setting it as a local printer specifying the network port did the job.

Thanks efourc

Excellent.