Networking a920 printer with vista

Please Understand wireless network settings and setup:

Wireless networks depend on special-purpose radio receivers and transmitters that substitute the exchange of messages over the air for the exchange of messages that occurs over wired connections on conventional networks. When you power on your PC, Windows Vista automatically searches for available wireless networks.
The network icon in the system tray, shown in Figure 1, enables you to view a list of local networks that Windows Vista detects. Notice that the network icon in this figure is marked with a red X, which indicates no network connection is currently established.


Figure 1: A red X indicates no network connection is active.
When you click this icon, a window opens indicating you're not connected to a wireless network, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: The detail window for the network icon provides a link to create a network connection. The window also includes two hyperlinks: Connect to a network and Network and Sharing Center. Click the Connect to a network link to open the Connect to a network window, shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Connect to a network window.

Hi there You can try this not realy know if work on your printer it for a dell, it worth a go. How to clear NVRAM under maintenance:
· Press Menu.
· Press down until "Configure" appears, then press right.
· Press down until "Maintenance" appears, press right.
· Press down until "Init NVRAM" appears, and press right.
· "Init NVRAM Are you sure?": press "enter" in the center.
· Follow instruction and restart the printer (turn off the printer, and then on).

How to clear NVRAM under Network
· Press "Menu".
· Press down until "Configure" appears, and press right.
· Press down until "Network" appears, and press right.
· Press down until "Init NVRAM" appears, and press right.
· "Init NVRAM Are you sure?": press "enter" in the center.
· Follow instruction and restart the printer (turn off the printer, and then on).

Default username = admin
Default password = password

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Did you define the printers and printer ports to the laptops?


On the XP laptop go to network connections in the control panel and use the network setup wizard.

Try this: http://www.fixya.com/support/r3680773-completely_remove_printer_drivers

I will assume you have the Printer connected directly to a PC via the USB printer cable on our network.

a. Start - Run - Control - Ok
b. Open 'Printers and Faxes"
c. Open "Dell A920"
d. Print "Test Page" to assure the printer is working and connected.
e. With the "Dell A920" properties open - find the tab for Sharing.
f. Now select Share the Printer and name it.

At each Workstation you will need do steps a-b, and add the printer. Select browse network when adding the printer and find the Workstation with the shared printer.

If your Firewall on each Workstation is blocking "Print and File Share" you will need to change the settings to allow this procedure through.

Here is a link that may help further.

http://www.smartcomputing.com/Editorial/article.asp?article=articles/webonly/techsupport/73w10/73w10.asp&guid=

Hope this helps.......

God Bless.......

On the desktop, open Printers and Faxes. Right click the printer and click Share. Give it a name, etc. Just basically follow the instructions. On the Vista machine, add printer, network printer. You may have to click Add a printer not listed, then point to the printer with \\<xp computer name>\<printer name>

If you need help, I'd be more than happy to remotely administer this for you.

It could be related to Vista. Check Dells website to see if they have a Vista driver for it.

If you have another USB Cable you can try swapping it.

If you have a spare USB Port, you can try swapping that as well.

You might try downloading the Vista driver for your printer onto all of the computers on the network that have Vista...

http://downloads.lexmark.com/cgi-perl/downloads.cgi?ccs=229:1:0:435:0:0

Hope this helps

set up file sharing and make sure the laptop is set to "private" not "public" in the Networking and Sharing Center.

Believe it or not... the driver is buried on the Dell site for Vista 64-bit. I search and searched ... and there it was.

http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R153048&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=203948

In any case, I downloaded it, installed it, and it works fine. All the buttons (scan/copy) on the top work as well as printing. Now if I could just get my old XP machines to print to it on the network. But.. I think that is another thread.