Help with Brother 1850 under Windows 7

[Michael J Davis]

I have a Brother 1850 attached to a windows XP computer (until recently
under win98) that's worked fine on a network of XP Pro m/cs.

I recently added a Windows 7 machine, but cannot get that to recognise
the printer on the network.

Been onto the Brother site, which has various utilities that don't seem
to do much to help.

Any thoughts appreciated. At present work on the Win7 has to be ported
to a Win XP m/c and printed from there.

Ta!

Mike

 

[Brian]

It would have been childs' play for Microsoft to write a normalization
routine to take care of this. Both Microsoft and the printer makers have
issued us a hearty "screw you." My solution for myself is, after using
Microsoft products since 1984, to change to Linux. To hell with them and
their games. But you could re-load Windows and change it over to 32-bit
running. You'll lose some speed.

You also won't be able to utilise more than about 3.5Gb of memory with
the x32 version of windows.

 

[generic name]

You also won't be able to utilise more than about 3.5Gb of memory with
the x32 version of windows.

The Brother web site says that the win7 drivers are available for the
discontinued model in the windows 7 update (service pack?) even if it
wasn't available on the original dvd. Should be available on the
win7 with service pack iso that is available.....

 

[Michael J Davis]

Been through this with my son's Canon printer and a new computer
running Windows 7. The problem is that the computer came configured in
64-bit mode rather than the older, slower 32-bit mode. In 64-bit, the
computer won't see the printer. My son had to buy a new printer.

It would have been childs' play for Microsoft to write a normalization
routine to take care of this. Both Microsoft and the printer makers
have issued us a hearty "screw you." My solution for myself is, after
using Microsoft products since 1984, to change to Linux. To hell with
them and their games. But you could re-load Windows and change it over
to 32-bit running. You'll lose some speed.

Thanks for your comments.

Actually, I've managed to get it to communicate under an XP virtual m/c,
but it's a bit of a nuisance. I cant get the old canon S9000 inkjet
which does run under Win 7-64 to work from the XP-Pro m/c over the
network.

Mike

 

[Michael J Davis]

No. When you go into "Add Printer" in Win7 or Win8 and you list the
available drivers and you see that it is NOT listed choose Windows
Update and the list of available drivers will be expanded and it will
cover the Brother 1850.

Thanks, I shall explore that and see what happens.

Printer drivers are NOT is OS Service Packs. OS Service Packs
specifically roll-up previous Security Updates and HotFixes and may add
certain functionalities or corrections only.

[snip]

Mike