Toshiba eStudio 161 printer driver for Win 7 (64 bit)
I have Toshiba e-Studio 161 BW Copier printer scanner. Toshiba makes 32-bit printer driver for this device on 2000, XP, Vista, and Win7. But, they do not make a 64-bit driver that I could find. Now, most new PCs with Win7 are 64-bit. This printer/copier is critical to my operation (yes, low budget). Old Vista laptop (32-bit) died and new replacement laptop was purchased. Then, found out that not 64-bit drivers for the 161 printer. Does anybody know if a 64-bit driver is available for this printer e-Studio 161? If so, please help me find it. Thanks a lot for your help!
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Thank you both for your comments. I hadn't thought of downgrading the OS. I appreciate the idea. I am not on site today as priorities have shifted. I plan to be onsite Thr or Fri. I will try Sarge's 64-bit Vista driver to see if I have any success at that time. I will reply as soon as I'm back onsite. Again, thanks to both of you for your help!
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Well, no joy with the suggested Toshiba driver. Perhaps it may work on some 161 printers, but I was unable to get it to function. The printer only has USB and Parallel printer ports (no LAN). I tried to use existing port and even create new port of USB type--no success. The Win7 diriver shows and "!" in the icon and says not functioning. When I try to print nothing happens. The job will now sit there in the print queue (this was progress from earlier attempts), but the printer makes not attempt to print or even look as though data is transferring from the PC to the printer. I don't imagine there are any more options. The client has relegated themselves to purchasing a new copier (rather than following the suggestion to downgrade the OS from 64 bit to 32 bit). They want the new 64 bit and want compatible printer if no driver is available. I'm open to any final suggestions. Please advise at your convenience if you can think of anything else for me to try. Thanks again for taking the time to listen and offer suggestions. I respect you both deeply for you help.
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This was the recommended solution to the client. But, instead the client decided to upagrade the eStudio 161 printer to a newer model that is compatible with Win7; so this solution was never implemented.
http://copiers.toshiba.com/downloads/KB/file_uploads/6697/ga1031-wxp-vista-64bit-v249-pcl.zip
2. Extract the zip file to a folder
3. Goto Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Printers and follow the procedure below.
a. click "add a printer", add local printer, create a new port and select standard tcpip port
b. Enter the ip address of the printer in add printer port window and click next....
c. When you are asked for the location of the driver, click "Have disk" button and browse to the folder where you extract the driver file and click ok. Do not select windows update to locate the driver.
d. Follow on-screen instruction to complete the printer setup