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USB printer on network will not install
Good Day Sirs and Madams:I am close to losing my mind as I get used to running Windows 7 x86 on a Windows Server 2008 x64 Network. Just wanted to share that and get it out of the way.Today's issue is that I have an HP Deskjet 952c printer connected to my server via a USB cable. My server doesn't have a parallel port for printers (It's a newer HP meant to be a desktop). I have the printer published in Active Directory from the print server role, and clients running XP Pro have no problems.I'm not sure what 7's problem is, but the normal solution; manually installing the driver, is proving impossible. HP's website insists that the driver is included with 7's plug and play and refuses to let me download the driver! Sure, the driver is probably in there, but 7 does not see that it needs it because the printer is not connected to the system. I cant even fix this issue from my server because the server's PnP hasnt downloaded the x86 driver since it is an x64 system!Google has failed me horribly as well....