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| Printing, Faxing and Scanning with Vista A forum for using printers, scanners and fx with Windows Vista. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan) |
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July 17th 08, 03:46 PM
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VISTA HOME NOT SEEING NETWORK PRINTERS
I just bought a laptop with vista home on it. I am having a odd printer
problem. I have 2 networked printers: a Brother MFC-240CN printer and a HP Laserjet 5m. If the printers are turned on before the computer, then Vista see the printers and show thier status as online. However if the printer I wish to print to is turned on AFTER Visa loads, then the printer status shows as OFFLINE and I cannot figgure out how to make Vista see that the printer is now actually ONLINE. I am not expieriencing this issue on my XP, Linux, or HP-UX computers so it is not a network issue. 
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July 17th 08, 05:36 PM
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VISTA HOME NOT SEEING NETWORK PRINTERS
"ChrisA" wrote in message
... I just bought a laptop with vista home on it. I am having a odd printer problem. I have 2 networked printers: a Brother MFC-240CN printer and a HP Laserjet 5m. If the printers are turned on before the computer, then Vista see the printers and show thier status as online. However if the printer I wish to print to is turned on AFTER Visa loads, then the printer status shows as OFFLINE and I cannot figgure out how to make Vista see that the printer is now actually ONLINE. I am not expieriencing this issue on my XP, Linux, or HP-UX computers so it is not a network issue. In Vista, do a Refresh of the Network.
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July 21st 08, 08:44 AM
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VISTA HOME NOT SEEING NETWORK PRINTERS
"f/fgeorge" wrote in message
news  Go to Control Panel. Choose printer. Then choose Add Printer. ChooseAdd a local printer. Click on Create a new port. The default in the drop down box is Local Port. Do not change that. Click Next. A dialogue box will appear asking for you to enter a port name. Type in the \\computer name\printer name ie. My computer's name is basement and the printer name is EpsonSty so I typed in \\basement\epsonsty." Hope it helps. Is EpsonSty the local printre name on basement, or is it the shared name?
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July 21st 08, 01:42 PM
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VISTA HOME NOT SEEING NETWORK PRINTERS
"f/fgeorge" wrote in message
... the local printer name, insert your names as appropriate. You CANNOT use spaces in the naming convention if you want it to work this way. Thanx, I'll rename without spaces.
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July 21st 08, 01:57 PM
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VISTA HOME NOT SEEING NETWORK PRINTERS
"f/fgeorge" wrote in message
... the local printer name, insert your names as appropriate. You CANNOT use spaces in the naming convention if you want it to work this way. I had to use the share name.
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