I just upgraded my home PC from XP to Windows 7 Professional, running on a 64-bit architecture.
This PC had, and still has, an old HP 920c inkjet printer (circa 2001) plugged into it. There are two other XP laptops in the house, an XP desktop, and a Windows 7 laptop. These all access the printer through our home wireless network. When my PC was running XP and hardwired to the printer, the other boxes could all use the printer.
However, since I upgraded the printer PC to Windows 7, only the Windows 7 laptop is able to print.
I can FIND the printer from the XP machines. I can ADD the printer to the printer list for those machines. But so far, I am failing to print from them.
My guess is that the cause is that the printer is now using a Windows 7 driver, being wired to a Win7 machine, and that maybe I need to somehow configure the XP computers with the XP driver (or the Windows 7 driver? - not sure which to use). HP Deskjet 920c Printer series*-* Download drivers and software - HP Business Support Center is the page with the drivers for my printer.
Any suggestions, I'd appreciate - and yes, I realize that a good chunk of my question might be XP-related and not Windows 7, so I appreciate people's understanding here.
This PC had, and still has, an old HP 920c inkjet printer (circa 2001) plugged into it. There are two other XP laptops in the house, an XP desktop, and a Windows 7 laptop. These all access the printer through our home wireless network. When my PC was running XP and hardwired to the printer, the other boxes could all use the printer.
However, since I upgraded the printer PC to Windows 7, only the Windows 7 laptop is able to print.
I can FIND the printer from the XP machines. I can ADD the printer to the printer list for those machines. But so far, I am failing to print from them.
My guess is that the cause is that the printer is now using a Windows 7 driver, being wired to a Win7 machine, and that maybe I need to somehow configure the XP computers with the XP driver (or the Windows 7 driver? - not sure which to use). HP Deskjet 920c Printer series*-* Download drivers and software - HP Business Support Center is the page with the drivers for my printer.
Any suggestions, I'd appreciate - and yes, I realize that a good chunk of my question might be XP-related and not Windows 7, so I appreciate people's understanding here.
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- custom-built
- OS
- Win7 Professional 64
- CPU
- Intel I3 550 (3.2 GHz)
- Motherboard
- GIGABYTE|GA-H55M-S2V H55 1156 R
- Memory
- 8 gig (2x4gig Kingston DDR 3)
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD graphics (from CPU)
- Sound Card
- Realtek ALC888B
- Monitor(s) Displays
- ViewSonic
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x1024
- Hard Drives
- Seagate ST3250310CS (250 gig C drive for OS and programs)
WDC WD5000AAKS-00V1A0 (2x500 gig drives, software mirrored in a RAID 1 configuration, as a D drive, for documents and data)
- Internet Speed
- download > 15 mbps; upload approx 1 mbps
