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HP OfficeJet R65 driver problem
Hello everyone.
I have a HP OfficeJet R65 connected via parallel port, as it was supposed to be connected since it's an old printer. The printer works, but there's no way to make the scanner work with Windows 7 driver.
I questioned HP support website where it's recommended to use those included drivers and I noticed that there's no mention about the scanner in the support page.
So I contacted HP and their reply was:
"... Try to use Windows Vista drivers, otherwise there's nothing to do."
Now... first of all I don't know how to obtain those drivers, since they are in some archive in Windows Vista DVD/CD or whatever.
I was thinking about the installation of a virtual machine (even windows 98 would be good) to use the whole device as it is supposed to work, but I don't know, and I don't think, there would be the possibility to share LPT port, so the solution should be ineffective, because I could not install natively the device on the virtualized OS and sharing the device would not solve the problem, since the scanner does not work in win7.
Any suggestion? (other than buy another printer)
Thanks a lot.
Dave