Printing Help Appreciated...

[JoAnne]

Tuesday, January 02 2007, @ 6:51 AM (-0800 GMT)

I have a home network with 3 Win 98 SE PC's. One has an HP Model 4215
OfficeJet all-in-one connected to its 98 machine via a USB port. This
pc prints fine, as do the other 2 wireless-connected 98 pcs.

I've added a Win XP Home pc to the network. It shares files fine over
the network. I've used the 'Add Printer' gitchy and, on the XP
'Printers & Faxes' page, I see the printer icon with a checkmark, but
it is grey. Nothing I do will make it 'show color.' Under the status
column it says 'Ready.' If I left-click the printer icon, and then
click 'File,' there is no option in the menu to 'Set as Default
Printer.'

If I right-click the printer icon, choose 'Properties' and then
'Ports,' I see that the print path is to:

\\Kitchen\hp printer LAN Manager Printer Port HP PRINTER

This is the exact SAME path the 98 machines print via.

When I try to print a .txt file on XP, a msg box pops up saying, in so
many words, 'Printing,' yada yada, and then goes away.

Over on the 98 machine there is a loud DING and an error msg pops up
that says:

What to do?
Help appreciated.

JoAnne

 

[JoAnne]

Tuesday, January 02 2007, @ 12:04 PM (-0800 GMT)

One added thought on this...

Is it possible that, no matter what I do, I won't be able to print
using my new XP machine on my 98 network? Based on what I'm seeing, my
suspicion is that this is a 'printer driver' problem? As a 'just in
case,' I went to a HP printer driver site and looked for driver
up-dates. My problem here is that I'm asked for 'operating system.' I
naturally enter XP, as that is the machine that does not print, but
maybe I should ask for 98? It would seem logical that I need a driver
that works with xp AND 98 ??

JoAnne

 

[Elmo]

Tuesday, January 02 2007, @ 12:04 PM (-0800 GMT)

One added thought on this...

Is it possible that, no matter what I do, I won't be able to print
using my new XP machine on my 98 network? Based on what I'm seeing, my
suspicion is that this is a 'printer driver' problem? As a 'just in
case,' I went to a HP printer driver site and looked for driver
up-dates. My problem here is that I'm asked for 'operating system.' I
naturally enter XP, as that is the machine that does not print, but
maybe I should ask for 98? It would seem logical that I need a driver
that works with xp AND 98 ??

JoAnne

Download the XP drivers and install to the XP machine. Once the printer
is installed on the XP machine, it might work.