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July 30th 07, 09:52 PM
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Network Printer Spews Gibberish
My new Vista laptop (Home Premium) is successfully networked to my XP SP2
desktop. This XP desktop has a shared printer. I can see the printer. I can even use the printer (Brother 1440). BUT the text comes out as gibberish (oddly, graphics are OK). QUESTION: is this because the Vista system is constrained to using the XP print driver? If I update the XP print driver to Vista, will it screw up printing from the XP? 
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July 30th 07, 10:09 PM
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Network Printer Spews Gibberish
chemistx2 wrote:
My new Vista laptop (Home Premium) is successfully networked to my XP SP2 desktop. This XP desktop has a shared printer. I can see the printer. I can even use the printer (Brother 1440). BUT the text comes out as gibberish (oddly, graphics are OK). QUESTION: is this because the Vista system is constrained to using the XP print driver? If I update the XP print driver to Vista, will it screw up printing from the XP? Yes, this is because you need to use a Vista driver for the printer on Vista. No, it will not screw up printing from XP because you are using an XP driver there. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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July 30th 07, 10:34 PM
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Network Printer Spews Gibberish
So now I have a Vista driver installed on both the XP and the Vista
computers. Each computer will print when hooked directly to the printer. But when the Vista tries to print THROUGH the XP to shared printer, it's still gibberish. Shall we try something else? "Malke" wrote: chemistx2 wrote: My new Vista laptop (Home Premium) is successfully networked to my XP SP2 desktop. This XP desktop has a shared printer. I can see the printer. I can even use the printer (Brother 1440). BUT the text comes out as gibberish (oddly, graphics are OK). QUESTION: is this because the Vista system is constrained to using the XP print driver? If I update the XP print driver to Vista, will it screw up printing from the XP? Yes, this is because you need to use a Vista driver for the printer on Vista. No, it will not screw up printing from XP because you are using an XP driver there. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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July 30th 07, 11:41 PM
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Network Printer Spews Gibberish
chemistx2 wrote:
So now I have a Vista driver installed on both the XP and the Vista computers. Each computer will print when hooked directly to the printer. But when the Vista tries to print THROUGH the XP to shared printer, it's still gibberish. Shall we try something else? Why would you install a Vista driver on XP? Drivers are written for specific operating systems. You install the Vista drivers on Vista and the XP drivers on XP. It doesn't matter that the printer is connected to the XP machine. The Vista machine still should be using drivers for Vista, not XP. The Vista machine is able to print to the printer connected locally to the XP machine because 1) you have a working Local Area Network with file/printer sharing enabled; 2) the printer has been shared out from XP; 3) you have the appropriate drivers installed on each operating system. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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July 31st 07, 10:26 AM
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Network Printer Spews Gibberish
I am curious how you arrived at a Shared Printer. I run the same type of
network, with my printer connected to the XP computer. I set Vista up with it by going into Vista Networking Sharing, then "Add Network Device". Then I weaved my way to the XP Printer: voila! Driver automatically installed on Vista. "chemistx2" wrote: So now I have a Vista driver installed on both the XP and the Vista computers. Each computer will print when hooked directly to the printer. But when the Vista tries to print THROUGH the XP to shared printer, it's still gibberish. Shall we try something else? "Malke" wrote: chemistx2 wrote: My new Vista laptop (Home Premium) is successfully networked to my XP SP2 desktop. This XP desktop has a shared printer. I can see the printer. I can even use the printer (Brother 1440). BUT the text comes out as gibberish (oddly, graphics are OK). QUESTION: is this because the Vista system is constrained to using the XP print driver? If I update the XP print driver to Vista, will it screw up printing from the XP? Yes, this is because you need to use a Vista driver for the printer on Vista. No, it will not screw up printing from XP because you are using an XP driver there. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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