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Bill Jillians
Hello there, thank you for reading this.
I just upgraded to XP after putting it off for a year. I wish I had put
it off for longer. After grappling with the modem for the best part of
a day I finally got it working.
Now I have turned my attention to getting the printer working and that
is proving to be even worse (but at least I can now share my problems on
the Internet). I have two printers, an ancient Fujitsu RX7100 which is
compatible with a HP laserjet plus in Windows 98 and with a laserjet II
on other popular software. I tried the drivers in XP Professional (SP1)
with each of Laserjet, Laserjet Plus and Laserjet II. For each one the
line feed was interpreted as a page feed by the printer and reams of
paper came out with one line printed on each. No joy there.
I tried the HP website for a driver. Nothing beyond ME and no
indication of any problems with the XP driver on the disk noted.
My other printer is an Epson Stylus Photo 830U for which I have the
drivers on a disk. It needs USB and I don't have USB provided on the
computer. What I have is a PCI to USB card (an OPTI 82C861). And guess
what ... XP doesn't have a driver that works it. I have been to Totally
Drivers and they have drivers up to ME which claim to work with XP but
which people have written very unflattering comments about its ability
to work with XP. I haven't tried the driver jet (its an 8 minute
download on my dial up system that there is a good chance won't work
anyway.).
I just thought I would write my problems down in case somebody has a
better idea than "download service pack 2" which I am loath to do at
present. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I'm going to take
a well earned break from this problem for a while.
Bill
I just upgraded to XP after putting it off for a year. I wish I had put
it off for longer. After grappling with the modem for the best part of
a day I finally got it working.
Now I have turned my attention to getting the printer working and that
is proving to be even worse (but at least I can now share my problems on
the Internet). I have two printers, an ancient Fujitsu RX7100 which is
compatible with a HP laserjet plus in Windows 98 and with a laserjet II
on other popular software. I tried the drivers in XP Professional (SP1)
with each of Laserjet, Laserjet Plus and Laserjet II. For each one the
line feed was interpreted as a page feed by the printer and reams of
paper came out with one line printed on each. No joy there.
I tried the HP website for a driver. Nothing beyond ME and no
indication of any problems with the XP driver on the disk noted.
My other printer is an Epson Stylus Photo 830U for which I have the
drivers on a disk. It needs USB and I don't have USB provided on the
computer. What I have is a PCI to USB card (an OPTI 82C861). And guess
what ... XP doesn't have a driver that works it. I have been to Totally
Drivers and they have drivers up to ME which claim to work with XP but
which people have written very unflattering comments about its ability
to work with XP. I haven't tried the driver jet (its an 8 minute
download on my dial up system that there is a good chance won't work
anyway.).
I just thought I would write my problems down in case somebody has a
better idea than "download service pack 2" which I am loath to do at
present. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I'm going to take
a well earned break from this problem for a while.
Bill