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Printer Sharing for PSC-2210
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=bpu04830
This 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.
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=bpu04830
This 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.
did you not get a dialogue, asking if you would like to install additional drivers, during installation?
ASKER
The PSC installation routine on the host PC did not give me any option to install additional drivers.
ASKER
Increasing points -- evidently this is tougher than I thought.
Try manually installing the Win98 drivers for the printer on the Win98 workstation, pointing the manually installed printer to LPT1. Then delete the printer. This will install the drivers onto the workstation. Then try to complete the network install of the printer. It should then find the drivers that are already installed on the workstation and use those.
Hope this helps.
Chris :-)
Hope this helps.
Chris :-)
ASKER
Thanks, but I think I need more explicit help than this...
I executed the PSC install routine on the Win98 client machine. This is an InstallShield operation -- there is no option for manual install. There are no options given during the installation. When the installation routine is complete, it says "drivers installed successfully", but there are no additional printers under the Settings/Printers folder, hence nothing that I can point to LPT1.
I executed the PSC install routine on the Win98 client machine. This is an InstallShield operation -- there is no option for manual install. There are no options given during the installation. When the installation routine is complete, it says "drivers installed successfully", but there are no additional printers under the Settings/Printers folder, hence nothing that I can point to LPT1.
ASKER
Well, I've solved this myself.
I spent 1 hr+ on the phone last night with HP tech support. We concluded that to install the printer on the Win98 client PC, we simply needed the driver files by themselves so that they could be installed using the Windows driver wizard. That was the good news. The bad news was that the tech said the HP will only provide the drivers as part of an Installshield routine, and that he was not allowed to send me the plain driver files. That's a big strike against HP customer service in my book.
Thinking it over, I went searching on HP's web site to see if =any= drivers were available in "plain" form, i.e., just the files, without the Installshield. I noticed that for some printers, they offer a driver for "corporate" users, which appear to be just the driver files, no install routine. The print engine in the PSC-2210 is identical to the Deskjet 5550, so I went to look for 5550 drivers, and sure enough, the "corporate" package was available. Here's the link:
http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/softwareDownloadIndex.jhtml?reg=&cc=&softitem=dj-7166-1&prodId=hpdeskjet571896&lc=en&sw_lang=en
I downloaded these drivers, and extracted the files -- hallalujah, no InstallShield. Then I simply went to Settings/Printers and started up the add-printer wizard. I selected network printer, browsed to the PSC-2210, and when it asked for drivers, I selected "have disk" and browsed to the 5500 drivers I had just extracted. It installed perfectly, and works just like the PSC-2210 drivers installed on the host PC (with the exception that 2-way communication is not available).
I'm going to close this topic now. Thanks to those who responded and tried to help.
- Eric
I spent 1 hr+ on the phone last night with HP tech support. We concluded that to install the printer on the Win98 client PC, we simply needed the driver files by themselves so that they could be installed using the Windows driver wizard. That was the good news. The bad news was that the tech said the HP will only provide the drivers as part of an Installshield routine, and that he was not allowed to send me the plain driver files. That's a big strike against HP customer service in my book.
Thinking it over, I went searching on HP's web site to see if =any= drivers were available in "plain" form, i.e., just the files, without the Installshield. I noticed that for some printers, they offer a driver for "corporate" users, which appear to be just the driver files, no install routine. The print engine in the PSC-2210 is identical to the Deskjet 5550, so I went to look for 5550 drivers, and sure enough, the "corporate" package was available. Here's the link:
http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/softwareDownloadIndex.jhtml?reg=&cc=&softitem=dj-7166-1&prodId=hpdeskjet571896&lc=en&sw_lang=en
I downloaded these drivers, and extracted the files -- hallalujah, no InstallShield. Then I simply went to Settings/Printers and started up the add-printer wizard. I selected network printer, browsed to the PSC-2210, and when it asked for drivers, I selected "have disk" and browsed to the 5500 drivers I had just extracted. It installed perfectly, and works just like the PSC-2210 drivers installed on the host PC (with the exception that 2-way communication is not available).
I'm going to close this topic now. Thanks to those who responded and tried to help.
- Eric
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Sweet!!!