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Saturday, 26 November 2011 22:21

Install HP printer on Vista or Windows 7 from a Windows XP share

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when you try and install a HP printer which is located on a windows XP PC via network share on a windows vista or windows 7 computer you will run in to configuration issue. Only the following method will allow this configuration to work.

Don't use hp setup utility

  • install HP Universal Printer Driver - PCL6 is prefered
  • then manually setup printer via port name and select printer appropriate driver
  • delete unneeded ports as they can cause errors.
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