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Printer on Vista 64-bit, can't print wifi w/W7
I have an HP Deskjet F4280 attached to a Vista 64-bit printer. It is connected to our home network (MSHOME) via wifi.
We have two XP machines that can print via wifi to the HP printer on the Vista machine.
We recently bought a Windows 7 computer. It is attached directly to the router with an Ethernet cable and is on our home network - sort of. I can't find how to make sure it's connected to the MSHOME group, though the other computers show up under "network".
Windows 7 can see the HP Deskjet on the Vista.
It found the drivers and installed them on Windows 7.
The printer shows up as an installed printer on Windows 7.
Windows 7 will print a test page.
Windows 7 *will not* print from any other program, even though it will show "printing" and the item appears in the print queue on Windows 7. (Items do *not* appear on the Vista print queue, however.)
I've browsed for hours in the forums and have tried several options, but nothing previously written has worked. One was to set up a "local" printer on the Windows 7, even tho it really isn't - when I plugged in the path (\\VistaComputerName\HP Deskjet name), it told me it was not an option, path does not exist. I tried \\network\VistaComputerName\HP Deskjet name, also \\Network\MSHOME\VistaComputerName\HP Deskjet name and \\MSHOME\VistaComputerName\HP Deskjet name... and same message, the path does not exist). (When doing the path names, I'm using generic names here; in actuality, I *am* using the correct paths for our system set-up.)
TIA for any help...