Need Help With Installing HP 950 PSC AllInOne

J

Jethro

Wouldn't you know it!

I have a HP 950 PSC AllInOne (Print/Scan/Fax) that I want to install
on a new machine with WXP SP2.

I can't find the CD that came with it. I've looked & looked.

I tried DriverGuide.com, but all they seem to have are print-drivers
for this printer under the various OS's.

I tried one of the drivers, and it worked just fine for setting the
950 up as a printer.

Now how do I set it up for scanning (I don't need the fax)? As I
recall, the missing CD disk had all that software plus more I think.

HP has discontinued the printer, and I could find no way to get a
replacement disk.

So - I can't use the 950 as a scanner. Can anyone tell me how to
solve this dilemma?

Thanks

Jethro
 
P

Paul

Jethro said:
Wouldn't you know it!

I have a HP 950 PSC AllInOne (Print/Scan/Fax) that I want to install
on a new machine with WXP SP2.

I can't find the CD that came with it. I've looked & looked.

I tried DriverGuide.com, but all they seem to have are print-drivers
for this printer under the various OS's.

I tried one of the drivers, and it worked just fine for setting the
950 up as a printer.

Now how do I set it up for scanning (I don't need the fax)? As I
recall, the missing CD disk had all that software plus more I think.

HP has discontinued the printer, and I could find no way to get a
replacement disk.

So - I can't use the 950 as a scanner. Can anyone tell me how to
solve this dilemma?

Thanks

Jethro
Click to expand...

There is a 37.58MB download here. Have you tried it ?
There is also a critical update file, whatever that is.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=60259&lang=en

Paul
 
B

beenthere

Jethro said:
Wouldn't you know it!

I have a HP 950 PSC AllInOne (Print/Scan/Fax) that I want to install
on a new machine with WXP SP2.

I can't find the CD that came with it. I've looked & looked.

I tried DriverGuide.com, but all they seem to have are print-drivers
for this printer under the various OS's.

I tried one of the drivers, and it worked just fine for setting the
950 up as a printer.

Now how do I set it up for scanning (I don't need the fax)? As I
recall, the missing CD disk had all that software plus more I think.

HP has discontinued the printer, and I could find no way to get a
replacement disk.

So - I can't use the 950 as a scanner. Can anyone tell me how to
solve this dilemma?
Click to expand...
Read D\loading the sofware here. Better to order the CD.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&product=58710&dlc=en&docname=bpu01857
 
J

Jethro

I am re-creating my two machine LAN, both WXP SP2.

I want my three printers all connected to one, and used by both
machines. When I 'add new printers' on the second (remote) machine I
notice that the choices include the 'share-name' I want, which has
worked fine except for one printer, but the pool of available choices
include a whole lot of names from earlier setups over the past two
years. Those choices are of no use any more, and in fact their
'share-names' are no longer valid. How do I remove all the obsolete
choices now? I could find no way.

While I am asking, the one printer that I can not seem to use remotely
is a Konica 1350W Laser. Is that printer unique is some way that
precludes sharing? The printer works fine when printing from the
machine to which it is connected, but not from the second machine.

Thanks

Jethro
 
B

Barry Watzman

Drivers for all HP products can be downloaded from the HP web site. You
won't get "value added software" (generally that means 3rd party OCR
software), but you will get full functionality, including the scanner.
 
E

ElJerid

Barry Watzman said:
Drivers for all HP products can be downloaded from the HP web site. You
won't get "value added software" (generally that means 3rd party OCR
software), but you will get full functionality, including the scanner.
Click to expand...

There will however remain a problem!
After downloading the software package from HP support website, jethro will
probably be unable to install the softwrare and will receive an error
message like "installer detected that the PSC950 is already installed".
I had this problem and could not find a way to overcome the error. I
involved HP support and after 2 months of phone calls, mails, online chatt
and escalations, the conclusion and advice of the "factory expert" was that
I had to reinstall Windows!!!
It looks like nobody at HP knows where the check routine for previous
install (other drivers, Windows default drivers, old HP drivers) is located
or how to disable it.
 
K

kony

There will however remain a problem!
After downloading the software package from HP support website, jethro will
probably be unable to install the softwrare and will receive an error
message like "installer detected that the PSC950 is already installed".
I had this problem and could not find a way to overcome the error. I
involved HP support and after 2 months of phone calls, mails, online chatt
and escalations, the conclusion and advice of the "factory expert" was that
I had to reinstall Windows!!!
It looks like nobody at HP knows where the check routine for previous
install (other drivers, Windows default drivers, old HP drivers) is located
or how to disable it.
Click to expand...

I don't know for certain but would suspect you first need to
install the software before plugging in the printer. If it
had been plugged in already, you might be able to remove
entries from Device Manager, otherwise you are left hunting
down associated enumerated device entries in the registry.
 
B

Barry Watzman

There is an "uninstall" tool for many printer models (not necessarily
all) so that you can start over clean.

However, in his case I thought he said it was a new XP machine.
 
E

ElJerid

kony said:
I don't know for certain but would suspect you first need to
install the software before plugging in the printer. If it
had been plugged in already, you might be able to remove
entries from Device Manager, otherwise you are left hunting
down associated enumerated device entries in the registry.
Click to expand...

Yes, you' re right. But what happened is that for some reason, an old
software version had been installed and it appeared to be impossible to
completely remove it, nor by cleaning the registry, nor by removing in
Device Manager, nor by uninstalling it the traditional way, nor by running a
special uninstall utility provided by HP, nor after hours and hours of HP's
support.
And guess, I finally reinstalled Windows XP, which was finally faster than
to continue investigating where that damn information of existing
installation was located.
 
B

Bob Headrick

Drivers for all HP products can be downloaded from the HP web site. You
won't get "value added software" (generally that means 3rd party OCR
software), but you will get full functionality, including the scanner.
Click to expand...

You can download drivers for the PSC 950 from HP at
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=60259&lang=en

There is also a link on that page to order a replacement CD, in the US it is
~$10 with shipping included.

Regards,
Bob Headrick, MS MVP Printing/Imaging
 
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Barry Watzman

Did anyone notice that on July 1st, HP removed ALL drivers for any OS'
before Windows 2000? You can no longer get drivers for any NT or 9x
systems, even ones which were posted online as of 6/30. You also cannot
any longer order CDs with these drivers. Either you have the driver
already (on CD or saved download), or you know someone else who has it,
or you are screwed. This was applicable to ALL HP products, across the
board, not just printers.
 
G

GMAN

Did anyone notice that on July 1st, HP removed ALL drivers for any OS'
before Windows 2000? You can no longer get drivers for any NT or 9x
systems, even ones which were posted online as of 6/30. You also cannot
any longer order CDs with these drivers. Either you have the driver
already (on CD or saved download), or you know someone else who has it,
or you are screwed. This was applicable to ALL HP products, across the
board, not just printers.
Click to expand...

Most likely its Microsoft demanding that noone support the older OS's to force
people to buy new hardware/New OS etc...
 
A

Airman Thunderbird

My old, we talking old, 7700 series laptop's still supported, with OSes
from 3.1 to 2000. Maybe just printers, or maybe they just ain't got
'round to dumping everything yet.

Quote from HP:
" Microsoft discontinued Windows 98/ME shipments in June 2002/2003
respectively.
HP’s Windows 98/ME driver discontinuance is directly related to the
fact that there is no longer Microsoft resources allocated to issue
management."

Don't know why they couldn't have left the old stuff available for
download, though.
 
C

CBFalconer

GMAN said:
Most likely its Microsoft demanding that noone support the older
OS's to force people to buy new hardware/New OS etc...
Click to expand...

More likely it is some idiot at HP. If MS pulled something of that
sort, and it was provable, they would be in a heap of expensive
trouble, IMO.
 
M

measekite

Barry said:
Did anyone notice that on July 1st, HP removed ALL drivers for any OS'
before Windows 2000? You can no longer get drivers for any NT or 9x
systems, even ones which were posted online as of 6/30. You also
cannot any longer order CDs with these drivers. Either you have the
driver already (on CD or saved download), or you know someone else who
has it, or you are screwed. This was applicable to ALL HP products,
across the board, not just printers.
Click to expand...

While that is unfortunate, nobody should be using those archaic
operating systems anyway. If your computer cannot at least support W2K
then is it a piece of trash and ready to be sent overseas.
 
G

GMAN

While that is unfortunate, nobody should be using those archaic
operating systems anyway. If your computer cannot at least support W2K
then is it a piece of trash and ready to be sent overseas.
Click to expand...


Its a piece of trash when "I" say it is, not some shitstain at microsoft!!!!!


As long as its usefull to me, its none of their business.

 
K

kony

While that is unfortunate, nobody should be using those archaic
operating systems anyway. If your computer cannot at least support W2K
then is it a piece of trash and ready to be sent overseas.
Click to expand...


Don't be an idiot.

Not everyone, not every system needs to encode HD video or
game at 200 FPS. For example there are lots of businesses
out there running legacy software because it would cost many
thousands of dollars to switch (merely on your say-so, since
they'd have already switched if present systems/OS weren't
getting the job done). The only real factor might be the
age of the hardware as it related to reliability, so people
will buy newer systems and chuck WinXP or Vista to run the
same thing they were already.
 
B

Barry Watzman

It's more than printers, scanners and MFP devices have had their drivers
removed. But I'm not sure about computers that originally came with 9x
(and could not reasonably be upgraded).
 

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