Re: thanks for printer info
- From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 12:07:14 -0500
Ok, here's what I did -- I first went to printers and faxes on my xp
machine, selected the printer I wanted to export and right clicked and
selected "sharing..." and filled out the info. This created a generic
printer on the network called something like "printer9". I then went to my
other pc and went to printers and faxes and created a new printer entry, and
there was a place where I could import a printer from the network. I
selected "printer9" and it installed that printer on the new pc with the
same name as it is on the host pc.
Then it printed a test page and the print job went to the printer like it
was supposed to.
So easy it was hard to find...*smile*
But as I said, it appears the client machine needs a driver for the printer,
which pretty much spoils what I was trying to do. All my machines are in
the same room after all -- the reason I wanted to network is because my
hosting machine with the embosser on it is xp with 32bit, and the embosser
drivers won't work on 64bit.
So I still have to manually carry around my print jobs.
*sigh*
and I even thought I could have the embosser exported for my mother to send
me braille jobs from her machine. She'll just have to send me email and
I'll emboss it here.
--le
at least the hp printer is working.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alphonso McFadden" <techsales2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: thanks for printer info
how did you do it?
----- Original Message -----
From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "bprogramming" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<blind-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 11:05 PM
Subject: thanks for printer info
> Thanks to all who forwarded printer networking info. I finally got it
> working -- not hard at all, despite different instructions from 3
> different
> people, all correct.
> Unfortunately, it works great for my hp printer, but my embosser, which is
> old and does not have drivers that can be used on 64 bit, won't network
> unless I install the drivers on the w7 machine. But that's the whole
> problem -- if I could have install the drivers on the new machine I
> wouldn't
> have bothered networking in the first place.
> So I will have to emboss manually by email.
> But at least I have a public printer...*smile*
> Thanks.
> --le
>
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