Bonnie asks:
Hi,
I’m upgrading the computers at work from Windows XP to Windows 7 and not all computers in the one office might get upgraded at the same time. They are using a shared printer and when I upgrade one computer to 7 all of the other computers using XP can no longer print to the printer.
When they print you need to assist the printer because it prompts t0 load glossy paper. To correct this I have to go to each XP computer and change the printer driver – shouldn’t there be an eaiser way?
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System: Windows XP /Win 7
Tagged: network printer, windows 7, windows tips, windows xp
System: Windows XP /Win 7
Tagged: network printer, windows 7, windows tips, windows xp
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Bruce Epper
November 14, 2012The easy way would be to use a print server to control all of the jobs. Every user prints to the print server and that server then handles the actual spooling and printer control issues. By doing it this way, one computer’s altered settings for a print job will not have the opportunity to carry over into the next user’s job which is what is probably happening here.
susendeep dutta
November 14, 2012Firstly,make sure there is no Firewall blocking access to anything required for your printing tasks.Next is to make sure that XP and & computers are in same workgroup -
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/share-files-and-printers-between-windows-7-and-xp/
ha14
November 14, 2012HomeGroup = Works only between Win 7 computers.
Boni Oloff
November 14, 2012Does the upgraded system using the Windows 7?
Are you already configure it correctly, and make the printer shared?
Naveen Kumar
November 14, 2012take a look this you will fix it
http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/windows-vista/Troubleshoot-network-printer-problems
Douglas Mutay
November 14, 2012The kind of headache that it most likely to happen until you finish upgrading all your PC. Sorry
Jan Fritsch
November 14, 20121. Have you installed the proper [version compatible] driver on the system the printer is shared from? If you upgrade the machine the printer is shared from to Windows 7 you will also have to update the printer driver on this machine.
2. Have you tried doing it the other way around? Connect and share the printer on a system that stays on Windows XP for now.
Jim Chambers
November 15, 2012Use a wired print server or a wired network printer. Wireless can be a real pain and seems to go down when you need it the most.
Rich Mc.
November 15, 2012You will probably keep having issues until you do a complete change over to one OS. Good luck.
Josue Aguilar
November 16, 2012I found some helpfull sites that maybe can resolv your problem
http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/xp-to-windows-7-printer-sharing/
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/40819-42-win7-find-printers-network-printers
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/share-files-and-printers-between-windows-7-and-xp/
Eath Chantrea
November 18, 2012You can use DriverPack Solution 12.3 Full. It is all-in-one drivers packs. If you have slow internet I recommend you to use lite version.
http://drp.su/download.htm
kumar raja
November 27, 2012Configure Correctly and absolutely it will work with both