I have a PSC-2210 all-in-one attached to a Host PC running WinXP Pro. It appears to be installed corrrectly, and all of the PSC features are working. I would like to use Windows printer sharing to allow another client PC on the network to print to the PSC. The client PC is running Win98. How do I install the appropriate driver on the client PC?
I have shared the printer from the WinXP host PC, and it shows up under Network Places on the Win98 client PC. When I try to install it, Windows asks me to provide a printer driver. I attempted to load a driver from the PSC-2210 setup CD, but was unable to do so.
HP's web site provides the following tech note: "HP All-in-One Products - Can the HP All-in-One Product be Used over a Network?".
http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/document.jhtml?lc=en&docName=bpu04830This tech note indicates that I should install "additional drivers" on the host PC, so that the client PC can load the necessary drivers over the network. I attempted to do this following the instructions in the tech note, but was unable to install the additional drivers. I browsed to the HPOPRN08.INF file on the PSC installation CD, but then WinXP prompts for an additional file, "install_psc2200", which is not on the CD.
As a current workaround, I was able to install the printer on the client PC using the HP Deskjet-870Cse driver (which is included on the Win98 CD). Using this driver, I'm able to print to the PSC from the client PC, but this driver does not have all of the printing features of the native driver.
I spent 2 hours in chat last night with HP tech support, but they were not able to solve the problem.
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