Konica Minolta 2400W

[David R. Norton MVP]

During my XP64 days I emailed Konica Minolta asking for a 64 bit driver
and they emailed back that it would be available by a date they were
unable to make, they later emailed my that it was on their "to do" list
and a few days ago I found it on their website.

Unfortunately, it won't install in Vista64 and I no longer have X64
installed on my computer.......

So my question is, does anyone have this printer? If so do you have
either Vista64 or X64 and can you install the driver?

I don't know if I'm doing something wrong trying to install (I'm logged
on as administrator), the message is something to the effect that the
software isn't made for the OS and I'd like to see if it will install
in X64 but I'm WAAAAAAY too lazy to install X64 to see if it works...

 

[Zack Whittaker]

OK, you can only install x64 drivers with an x64 operating system. If you
install an x86 version of Vista onto a x64 machine (it'll work...) but
everything from that point on will need x86 drivers.

It always depends on the operating system )

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[Peter Foldes]

I believe that David knows this Zack. His question was not for what you answered but rather will it install on X64 and would it work.
Unfortunately I do not have a Konica\Minolta and I am not able to answer David

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

I believe that David knows this Zack. His question was not for
what you answered but rather will it install on X64 and would it
work.

Actually I believe you both misread. I have a 64 bit computer with a
64 bit operating system, Vista 64. I have a 64 bit driver from Konica
Minolta but it was written for X64, not Vista 64 (I'm not sure if that
should make any difference?)

The driver is an .exe file and it won't install, I get an error saying
the driver isn't meant for the OS or some such.

Since I posted, I found I could unpack the .exe file to a temporary
directory, go to the new printer wizard, tell it to install on a USB
port and then click "Have Disk" and point to the .inf file in the
temporary directory. Everything installs perfectly, I get all the
controls to set up paper size, color, etc. but it won't print. I get
the printer icon in the tray at the bottom, it says it has a test page
queued but no print, absolutely nothing happens, the printer doesn't
even begin the warmup cycle.

I rebooted and test page(s) print perfectly! Then it won't print
again? It queues documents and prints them only when I reboot.

Someone who knows a lot more about printing than me will have to figure
this one out. Obviously the printer did NOT install correctly and
maybe the big clue was not being able to run the .exe file?

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

Actually I believe you both misread. I have a 64 bit computer
with a 64 bit operating system, Vista 64. I have a 64 bit driver
from Konica Minolta but it was written for X64, not Vista 64 (I'm
not sure if that should make any difference?)

The driver is an .exe file and it won't install, I get an error
saying the driver isn't meant for the OS or some such.

Since I posted, I found I could unpack the .exe file to a
temporary directory, go to the new printer wizard, tell it to
install on a USB port and then click "Have Disk" and point to the
.inf file in the temporary directory. Everything installs
perfectly, I get all the controls to set up paper size, color,
etc. but it won't print. I get the printer icon in the tray at
the bottom, it says it has a test page queued but no print,
absolutely nothing happens, the printer doesn't even begin the
warmup cycle.

I rebooted and test page(s) print perfectly! Then it won't print
again? It queues documents and prints them only when I reboot.

Someone who knows a lot more about printing than me will have to
figure this one out. Obviously the printer did NOT install
correctly and maybe the big clue was not being able to run the
.exe file?

Replying to my own post, that's gotta be a symptom of something?

There's a new build of Vista64 out, I'll install it before trying the
printer again.

 

[Peter Foldes]

David

I have no problems with my X64 setup with the new 5381 and printer driver for my HP is working well. I have no idea what will happen with the *.inf of the Konica\Minolta. So I guess you might want to give it a go see on this new build. Can you post back to satisfy my curiosity. Thanks

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

I have no idea what will happen with the *.inf of the
Konica Minolta. So I guess you might want to give it a go see on
this new build. Can you post back to satisfy my curiosity. Thanks

I'll do so, but don't be eager, I doubt I'll be able to burn the DVD
much before Tuesday and I'll probably be able to install then.

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

I'll do so, but don't be eager, I doubt I'll be able to burn the
DVD much before Tuesday and I'll probably be able to install then.

OK, I tried to burn the ISO and can't, it's a staged build and too
large for my DVD drive. It requires dual layer drive and DVD media so
I'm not going to install it at all, I'll wait for the next build and
hope they offer an unstaged ISO.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Download it, but then download Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc) and stick
the ISO as a virtual drive )
I do this often because I don't want to waste DVD's )

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[David R. Norton MVP]

Download it, but then download Daemon Tools (www.daemon-tools.cc)
and stick the ISO as a virtual drive )
I do this often because I don't want to waste DVD's )

I'll give it a try later and see how it goes, thanks.

I'm not sure how to do that, I'll need to set it up in XP maybe and
then how do I boot on a virtual drive? Or I think 5831 will upgrade,
but I hate to do that, I'd rather do a clean instal and get rid of the
previous drive.

 

[David R. Norton MVP Shell/User]

I'll give it a try later and see how it goes, thanks.

OK, downloaded Daemon Tools and tried to install in Vista 64. It said I
needed to restart but... Vista 64 has never again booted, it just sits there
so I tried "last known good" and.... it booted, then popped up a message
that my time had expired and I had to register. All attempts at
registration failed. I'm out of time and patience so it's format the
partiton and forget Vista time.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Whoops (

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