Installed printer driver on my xp machine, printer is still not printing

Sometimes the newer print drivers don't do everything the older ones do. make sure you have a Vista print driver, and that the Vista print driver has that function (my HP Vista driver wouldn't scan for about the first year until HP finally updated the driver) Make sure you have the latest release of the vista print driver. if the problem is the vista print driver, sometimes you can get lucky by running/installing an XP driver on a Vista machine, in XP compatibility mode (right click, compatibility)

restart the system and then try it....

Uninstall the driver, remove any trace of the install from the system (as much as is possible). Whent his gets messed up it's really hard to get working on that machine again under XP. Aquire the printer through add printer and detect not the software on the CD, install the driver using the inf file on the Cd. Now reinstall the printer software using USB or serial as an option, when prompted select custom install and no driver. If you have it setup on another machine this also works, but acquire the printer through network neighborhood instead of using add/remove programs.

Please install again the software and get it here : www.nodevice.com/driver/company/Lexmark/Printer.html
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When the drivers are not available, you can install VMware virtual machine and be able to use windows xp and xp drivers to run your print jobs. The basic VMware is a free download and works well on my Vista machine.

Two Minolta 2300DL windows 7 64-bit solutions(choose oneoption): 1) Download the XP 64-bit driver and extract to a folder: ftp://ftp.minolta-qms.com/pub/crc/out_going/windows/2300d_64b.exe then Control Panel>Devices and Printers>Add aprinter> Add a local printer>choose USB printer port>select the "HaveDisk" button(do not select a printer) and browse navigate to where you savedthe XP 64-bit driver "MLUU_DRV.inf" driver file which installs and worksfine. Only issue is now have a 3 minutewait delay for each print job using the universal driver compared to no delaywhen printing with XP. OR 2) Follow the Vista USB port(not network) install guide butstill use the XP 64-bit driver. ftp://ftp.minolta-qms.com/pub/crc/out_going/manuals/misc/km_vista_instruct.pdf 3) 32-bit option use the Vista 32-bit driver first as thatshould work.

It sounds like your are using your Windows XP computer as the print server, and you are trying to connect your Windows Vista machine to the Windows XP print server. Your Vista machine is trying to download the XP drivers from the Windows XP computer to your Vista machine. This won't work. Windows XP and Vista print drivers are not compatible.

If the printer is truely networked (it has it's own IP address on the network, it has its own ethernet connection). Then instead of trying to map out to this shared printer, add new printer to the Vista machine using Vista drivers for the HP Deskjet 3940. The type of port you would need is a standard TCP/IP port. To get this address, print a settings page from the printer. Look for either a TCP/IP address or IP address on this print out. This is the port address you want to create and then connect to.

It's a driver problem not installed properly on the XP machines. Here's what you can do. Install first the driver of the printer directly to the XP machines. Then try to re-do the smart wizard installation.

MULTIPASS C20/C50 ON WINDOWS 2000/XP This device is not compatible with Windows 2000 and Windows XP as a multifunctional device. For this product, Canon advertises compatibility with the following operating systems: Windows 95, 98, Millennium Edition (Windows ME).

Printing functionality may be possible by following the steps below.
Step 1 – Install a compatible printer driver.

1. Start the ‘Add Printer Wizard’ from the Printers folder (Windows 2000) or the Printers and Faxes folder (Windows XP).
2. Ensure that the ‘Automatically detect my plug and play printer’ tick-box is not ticked. Press next.
3. When prompted, ensure the printer port is selected on to LPT1. Press Next
4. When the list of manufacturers and models is displayed, click on Canon, and then BJC4200. Press next until the installation is completed.
5. The printer driver should now be installed.

If you are using the BC22e photo cartridge, you will need to download the BJC4200 driver from the www.canon.com.au website.

Step 2 – Setting the Multipass machine to Printer Mode.

1. On the Multipass keypad, press Function, followed by 0.
2. Press the left arrow key until you see Dos Printing.
3. Press Start twice.


If you have successfully completed the above instructions, you may now find that you are able to print to the Multipass machine. To restore the Multipass back to its original mode, press Function, and then Printer Reset.
MULTIPASS C20/C50 ON WINDOWS 2000/XP This device is not compatible with Windows 2000 and Windows XP as a multifunctional device. For this product, Canon advertises compatibility with the following operating systems: Windows 95, 98, Millennium Edition (Windows ME).

Printing functionality may be possible by following the steps below.
Step 1 – Install a compatible printer driver.

1. Start the ‘Add Printer Wizard’ from the Printers folder (Windows 2000) or the Printers and Faxes folder (Windows XP).
2. Ensure that the ‘Automatically detect my plug and play printer’ tick-box is not ticked. Press next.
3. When prompted, ensure the printer port is selected on to LPT1. Press Next
4. When the list of manufacturers and models is displayed, click on Canon, and then BJC4200. Press next until the installation is completed.
5. The printer driver should now be installed.

If you are using the BC22e photo cartridge, you will need to download the BJC4200 driver from the www.canon.com.au website.

Step 2 – Setting the Multipass machine to Printer Mode.

1. On the Multipass keypad, press Function, followed by 0.
2. Press the left arrow key until you see Dos Printing.
3. Press Start twice.


If you have successfully completed the above instructions, you may now find that you are able to print to the Multipass machine. To restore the Multipass back to its original mode, press Function, and then Printer Reset.
MULTIPASS C20/C50 ON WINDOWS 2000/XP This device is not compatible with Windows 2000 and Windows XP as a multifunctional device. For this product, Canon advertises compatibility with the following operating systems: Windows 95, 98, Millennium Edition (Windows ME).

Printing functionality may be possible by following the steps below.
Step 1 – Install a compatible printer driver.

1. Start the ‘Add Printer Wizard’ from the Printers folder (Windows 2000) or the Printers and Faxes folder (Windows XP).
2. Ensure that the ‘Automatically detect my plug and play printer’ tick-box is not ticked. Press next.
3. When prompted, ensure the printer port is selected on to LPT1. Press Next
4. When the list of manufacturers and models is displayed, click on Canon, and then BJC4200. Press next until the installation is completed.
5. The printer driver should now be installed.

If you are using the BC22e photo cartridge, you will need to download the BJC4200 driver from the www.canon.com.au website.

Step 2 – Setting the Multipass machine to Printer Mode.

1. On the Multipass keypad, press Function, followed by 0.
2. Press the left arrow key until you see Dos Printing.
3. Press Start twice.


If you have successfully completed the above instructions, you may now find that you are able to print to the Multipass machine. To restore the Multipass back to its original mode, press Function, and then Printer Reset.

You are correct with the conflict, although, it's a difference in drivers, i think what has happened is when you share a printer with xp, it installs the driver from the pc with the driver and printer attached, and as it is attached to a win98 pc, the full functions are probably unavailable,unlike an xp local driver.