Halp!
Having troubles setting this up.
Windows 7 computer working fine - printer working fine (it's a canon ip5200). On Windows XP machine (SP3), I am trying to access the printer. I've tried this a couple of ways and it fails every time.
1) Drill down to printer via the Add Printer searchj for a network printer action. This eventually will ask me to point to an INF file that I don't have (unpacking Canon's printer driver installer to get to the 'ip5200.inf' file will eventually get me a 'Invalid printer file' error even though I can see that the inf file looks like an inf file.
2) Try to add it as a local printer, pointing to the network path (\\network\printer). That installs OK, but it doesn't work.
3) Try to install a network printer giving it a network path. See #1.
What in the heck am I doing wrong? I cannot get Windows7 to add the Windows XP drivers to it's list so I can install it via the network.
Halp!!
Having troubles setting this up.
Windows 7 computer working fine - printer working fine (it's a canon ip5200). On Windows XP machine (SP3), I am trying to access the printer. I've tried this a couple of ways and it fails every time.
1) Drill down to printer via the Add Printer searchj for a network printer action. This eventually will ask me to point to an INF file that I don't have (unpacking Canon's printer driver installer to get to the 'ip5200.inf' file will eventually get me a 'Invalid printer file' error even though I can see that the inf file looks like an inf file.
2) Try to add it as a local printer, pointing to the network path (\\network\printer). That installs OK, but it doesn't work.
3) Try to install a network printer giving it a network path. See #1.
What in the heck am I doing wrong? I cannot get Windows7 to add the Windows XP drivers to it's list so I can install it via the network.
Halp!!
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Home-Built, all me baby!
- OS
- Windows 7 x64 Ultimate RTM
- CPU
- Intel -i-950 (No OC)
- Motherboard
- Asus Rampage III Formula
- Memory
- 12GB G.SKill Trident+ Turbulance DD3 1600 (No OC)
- Graphics Card(s)
- 2 - EVGA GTX 465 Superclock (in SLI)
- Sound Card
- On-board Realtek 7.1 (ALC889)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Dual HP LP2065 LCD
- Screen Resolution
- 3200x1200 (1600x1200 by 2)
- Hard Drives
- 1 - Intel X-25M 160GB SSD (OS Drive)
2 - Hitachi Deskstars 2TB (In RAID1)
2 - Hitachi Deststar 2TB
- PSU
- Corsair AX1200 1200W 80Gold
- Case
- Silverstone Technology TJ09 Temjin w/window, Black
- Cooling
- CoolIT Domino CPU Cooler
- Keyboard
- MS Entertainment 7000 Wireless
- Mouse
- MS Laser Mouse 8000
- Internet Speed
- 22MB Down, 5MB up
- Other Info
- USB-connected Canon IP5200 printer
