Printer sharing

Do you have the printer on a network or Windows Home Group?
I have two Win 7 machines home grouped with a printer attached to the 64 bit machine. I can print to it from the 32 bit machine with no 32 bit drivers.
I don't think you would need 64 bit drivers since the printer is install on another machine and have a router(?) which acts as the printer server.

larrye said:

Thanks I have the pdf and read it I also am hard wired to the vista computer Thanks

What's the Vista service pack level? Vista before SP1 had problems with networking printers.

So do I take it "all the latest updates" means the Vista is at SP2?

Does the Icon for the networked printer look the same on both systems?

I'll tell you what happened with my Epson printer. It only has a Vista driver available. If I plug it into the Vista PC, all is great. If I try to attach it to the Windows 7 machine, the Vista PC will see it over the network, but the icon is not the same. It cannot detect ink levels. It sees it as some generic printer. It doesn't work.

The printer has to be able to serve the driver over the network. The machine that only has network access should be able to do all the stuff like check ink or toner levels, print test page, clean heads or whatever, that the local machine can do. If it can't, it's not getting the driver over the network.

If it can do everything but print over the network, then I'd look on the Vista PC for the problem. If you have any firewall, set all access to everything and disable the firewall service until you get it to work.

Physically uplug the printer power and plug back in, my HP printer "forgets" it's connected sometimes.