Printer driver confusion

[carl43m]

I have an older desktop with windows XP Home operating system. Recently I
took an old laser printer(9 years old) and hooked it directly to the pc. The
mfg. web site (Xerox) shows that it did not have a driver for xp or vista for
this printer. However, after I hooked up the printer to the pc , it works.

I went to control panel/system/hardware/device manager to see what driver
might be available to run the printer. However, there was no category for
imaging devices which would seem to indicate no driver was loaded for the
printer.
Does anyone know why this printer is working for me as it doesn't look like
there is any driver on the pc to make the printer run?
Thanks.

 

[Bob I]

Try looking in the Print Server Properties to see what driver is being
used. (See Print Server in Windows Help)

 

[smlunatick]

I have an older desktop with windows XP Home operating system. Recently I
took an old laser printer(9 years old) and hooked it directly to the pc.  The
mfg. web site (Xerox) shows that it did not have a driver for xp or vistafor
this printer.  However, after I hooked up the printer to the pc , it works.

I went to control panel/system/hardware/device manager to see what driver
might be available to run the printer.  However, there was no category for
imaging devices which would seem to indicate no driver was loaded for the
printer.
Does anyone know why this printer is working for me as it doesn't look like
there is any driver on the pc to make the printer run?
Thanks.

Printers do not normally show up in Device Manager, unless they are
"Plug and Play." The printer always show up in the "Printers and
Faxes" in Control Panel. You PC just may happen to have a compatible
driver already installed. Several laser printer might be directly
compatible with a standard HP Laserjet II driver.