Getting a Vista laptop to print wirelessly to a printer on a networked desktop.

[in Technicolor®]

I haven't had much luck with following scenario. In our home network we
have an XP Desktop (wired network) that has a Canon Multifunction Unit Pixma
we use for color printing. We also have a networked (wired) Vista Desktop
with a Konica Minolta PagePro 1350W for monochrome printing. I have a
MacBook Pro with both Leopard and XP Pro and both OS's can print wirelessly
to the two desktop attached printers. However, I cannot get my wife's
Toshiba Laptop running Vista Home Premium to print to either unit.

All machines are part of the same home workgroup. I can see the other
computers and printers on the Vista laptop, but the laptop cannot find them
with the add a printer utility/applet. Sharing is enabled throughout the
network and everybody is in the same subnet. I have the Network and Sharing
center setup on the Vista Desktop and laptop to Private network, discovery
is on, etc. I have googled the heck out of this problem, but the answers
and help sites have not shown me anything I have not tried already. Any
suggestion to get wireless printing from the Vista laptop going besides
downgrading to XP Pro?

TIA

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Vista Print Policy settings:
http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/05/04/windows-vista-point-print.aspx
Windows Vista Help Printing:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/printing.mspx

 

[Mick Murphy]

In vista's Network and Sharing, click on "Add Network Device" and browse to
your Printer.
Then follow prompts.
Make sure that you have the Printer's Vista compatible Driver installed in
the vista laptop.