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HCL - old printers on Vista Business
I went to HP.com and found drivers for LJ3, but what's the point of Vista
HCL if device not listed in it ? I have friend who's going to buy new PC's for business. I would like to check up front if his old printers will be plug and play. ( They like them - print checks on them - would rather not deal with new printers now.) I went to : http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/Default.aspx?m=v I have to choose Vista \ Devices or Systems OR " Works with Windows Vista & Windows Vista Basic " Know what ? - even when I don't specify a specific device and choose "ALL" , NOTHING " Works with Windows Vista" I thought I was going to search HCL for "LJ3" ( or Hewlett Packard (HP) Laserjet 3) and "Epson abc" and have it show me - go/no go. So on the left side I click printer/scanner... Let's assume he has a HP LJ3 Epson abc Canon Model 123 scanner Click Drop-down for HP, Of course, it returns every HP printer - in ... some order.. I clicked on sort by name - still not right, but eventually I get to page 13 and see " HP Laserjet" but no Laserjet 3. And that means ? Searching Printers & Scanners for "laserjet", returns too many hits to be useful. Searching Printers & Scanners for "laserjet 3" returns - ' No products were found. ' That's when I went to mfr website and found drivers there. I STILL don't know... when they buy the new PC's from Dell and plug in their printers, is Vista going to have the driver for an LJ3 and others, or Must (should) they download it from HP and have ready on floppy. I'll have them save to floppy, but defeats whole purpose of HCL if still unsure at boot time. |
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HCL - old printers on Vista Business
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:42:58 -0400, "- Bobb -"
wrote: I went to HP.com and found drivers for LJ3, but what's the point of Vista HCL if device not listed in it ? I have friend who's going to buy new PC's for business. I would like to check up front if his old printers will be plug and play. ( They like them - print checks on them - would rather not deal with new printers now.) I went to : http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/Default.aspx?m=v snip Hi Bob, The HP printers listed on that page include only those "certified for Vista" (meaning relatively recent models). Older HP printers that "work with Vista" use the drivers included with Vista. I just checked and the Laserjet 3 is indeed listed in the HP section of the Vista "Add a New Driver" dialog. I don't know if that list is on online anywhere, but the HP Support site would be the place to look for other models. As noted by HP on their site, their drivers often don't support "advanced" features in Vista. This caveat even applies to current models that are "certified for Vista". My guess is that the LJ 3 will work just fine after adding a parallel port for it. It's old enough that it doesn't include anything that could be considered "advanced" now. Doug M. in NJ |
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HCL - old printers on Vista Business
"retroman" wrote in message ... On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:42:58 -0400, "- Bobb -" wrote: I went to HP.com and found drivers for LJ3, but what's the point of Vista HCL if device not listed in it ? I have friend who's going to buy new PC's for business. I would like to check up front if his old printers will be plug and play. ( They like them - print checks on them - would rather not deal with new printers now.) I went to : http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/Default.aspx?m=v snip Hi Bob, The HP printers listed on that page include only those "certified for Vista" (meaning relatively recent models). Older HP printers that "work with Vista" use the drivers included with Vista. I just checked and the Laserjet 3 is indeed listed in the HP section of the Vista "Add a New Driver" dialog. I don't know if that list is on online anywhere, but the HP Support site would be the place to look for other models. As noted by HP on their site, their drivers often don't support "advanced" features in Vista. This caveat even applies to current models that are "certified for Vista". My guess is that the LJ 3 will work just fine after adding a parallel port for it. It's old enough that it doesn't include anything that could be considered "advanced" now. Doug M. in NJ Thanks Doug. I suspected that they WOULD work but wanted to be sure that at first boot these older (2000/XP era ) printers would be recognized and auto-find the drivers ( to do the 'same old job they've always done with older versions of Windows".) So maybe "LASERJET" in HCL means ' all versions ( Lj2/Lj3...) of Laserjets'. ( For deskjets it listed each model individually so not sure of " Laserjet". I was trying to avoid driving to their office and running " Vista compatablity' utility from MSFT site. I think to be safe I'll do that before they actually place their order to buy PC's. ( Otherwise they'll be calling me AFTER they buy them to get everything working. ) Thanks again. |
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HCL - old printers on Vista Business
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 18:17:26 -0400, "- Bobb -"
wrote: I suspected that they WOULD work but wanted to be sure that at first boot these older (2000/XP era ) printers would be recognized and auto-find the drivers ( to do the 'same old job they've always done with older versions of Windows".) So maybe "LASERJET" in HCL means ' all versions ( Lj2/Lj3...) of Laserjets'. ( For deskjets it listed each model individually so not sure of " Laserjet". Bob, You're quite welcome. Just to be clear on this, the Laserjet 3's that I have used will not install automatically because they are not USB and are not "plug and play" devices. The driver has to be installed with the "Add a Printer" wizard. Doug M. in NJ |
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HCL - old printers on Vista Business
"retroman" wrote in message ... On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 18:17:26 -0400, "- Bobb -" wrote: I suspected that they WOULD work but wanted to be sure that at first boot these older (2000/XP era ) printers would be recognized and auto-find the drivers ( to do the 'same old job they've always done with older versions of Windows".) So maybe "LASERJET" in HCL means ' all versions ( Lj2/Lj3...) of Laserjets'. ( For deskjets it listed each model individually so not sure of " Laserjet".) Bob, You're quite welcome. Just to be clear on this, the Laserjet 3's that I have used will not install automatically because they are not USB and are not "plug and play" devices. The driver has to be installed with the "Add a Printer" wizard. Doug M. in NJ Thanks Doug, I wasn't aware that non-usb printers wouldn't be auto-found. Do you know : is that just for printers ? Or apply to ANY non-usb devices in Vista? 2000,Xp etc would find my old HP710 deskjet printer whenever I 'd plug one into reconfig'ed PC. Do you know... will they get a pop-up " found new device" and then have to select the appropriate device ? Or that won't even happen ? They'll have to " control panel - printers - add a printer - etc" ( Not a big deal either way - would just like to tell them in advance what to expect) Thanks again. Bob |
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HCL - old printers on Vista Business
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 07:42:54 -0400, "- Bobb -"
wrote: I wasn't aware that non-usb printers wouldn't be auto-found. Do you know : is that just for printers ? Or apply to ANY non-usb devices in Vista? Bob, Sorry, I did not mean to generalize about the behavior of non-USB devices in Vista, printers or otherwise. I don't have an answer for that question. What I do know is that the Laserjet 3 that I work with is not plug and play. It's way too old for that -- it dates from the early 1990's. Doug M. in NJ |