I have a Compaq Presario computer that came with Windows 98 on it with a
Compaq IJ300 printer, after upgrading to Windows 2000 the printer no longer
works. It worked fine with Windows 98, when I check in the control panel
under devices it show a yellow question mark and says drivers not installed.
I went to both Compaq and Microsoft Windows download centers and none of them
have drivers for Windows 2000, only Windows 3.1, 95 and 98. What can I do to
make this printer work again, as it did when I was running Windows 98. I
don't want to buy a new printer when there is nothing wrong with this one.

If there are no drivers for Win2K, it's not going to work. Strangely enough
there are drivers for XP....
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"Paul" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a Compaq Presario computer that came with Windows 98 on it with a
> Compaq IJ300 printer, after upgrading to Windows 2000 the printer no
> longer
> works. It worked fine with Windows 98, when I check in the control panel
> under devices it show a yellow question mark and says drivers not
> installed.
> I went to both Compaq and Microsoft Windows download centers and none of
> them
> have drivers for Windows 2000, only Windows 3.1, 95 and 98. What can I do
> to
> make this printer work again, as it did when I was running Windows 98. I
> don't want to buy a new printer when there is nothing wrong with this one.

Cari (MS-MVP) wrote:
> If there are no drivers for Win2K, it's not going to work. Strangely
> enough there are drivers for XP....
Same problem with canon MP730. No 2k drivers. I have the system setup
as dual boot and using a program called Fineprint, www.fineprint.com, I
am able to safe the documents, spreadsheets, etc. as a fineprint file
and later booting into w98 to print. Pain but it works.

James