-=PCTechTalk=- Re: [Re: Printer trouble]
- From: taanzaa <taanzaa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 07:00:23 -0700 (PDT)
Hi:
Have you tried uninstalling and then checking your
registry for any printer values/keys removing them and
then reboot and reinstall? Just a shot in the
dark....
--- Hank Adams <hdka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you Robert, I have reinstalled the driver
> about 6 times, When I uni=
> nstall and reboot the computer doesn't find the
> printer then either. It i= s
> a cheap 3 yrs old Epson Stylus 640, No sticks. The
> printer was going th=
> rough the scanner but the scanner died so I started
> going to the computer=
> with the printer, now that the printer has died I am
> thinking it has som=
> ething to do with the port, But my cam works off the
> same port and it wor=
> ksgood. Yours Hank Robert Carneal wrote: When this
> happens to me,
> reinstalling the printer driver usually works, I= =
> would say about 19 times
> out of 20 it works. Is your printer the type that
> accepts memory sticks from
> digital cameras?= = If so, TAKE OUT THE STICK before
> you reinstall the
> printer driver. The = sales people told me that when
> they installed a driver
> with a stick insid= e = the printer, the printer
> "expected" that very same
> stick in all the time,= = and looks for it. (NOTE:
> This sounds a little
> fishyto me, and I have no= t = checked to verify one
> way or the other.
> Perhaps someone else on this list= = knows? -Robert)
> Robert At 10/10/2002
> 05:38 PM, you wrote: >Hi, My computer can't find my
> printer. I have checked
> everything and hav= e=3D > >reinstalled the driver,
> changed the cable from
> the computer to the print= e=3D >r. It >checks out
> ok in the system, Says it
> is on LPT1, The printer properties = S=3D >ays >LPT1
> (ECP Print Port). I
> evenreinstalled Win98 Can anyone tell me what= =3D
> >else >to do? >Yours Hank
> >
>
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