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XP Driver for HP 560C Printer

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by tom19

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I have an old HP 560C that still works very well, but I just changed to Windows XP and the XP supplied driver isn't working right. For example; it is not buffering correctly (i.e. locks further action until print complete), will not select certain features such as "Fast Mode", and in some cases will not print multiple copies when the option is given. I've searched for different drivers but have been unable to find any. Am I stuck with this since the printer is so old?

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by thechas

This is 1 of the "hidden" costs of an upgrade to XP.

Since HP does not offer an XP driver for your printer, you are pretty much stuck.

See this HP page:

http://tinyurl.com/3ds3l

This is even true for Windows 2000 and this printer:

http://tinyurl.com/yqd2q

Nearly ALL printer and scanner manufactures set a date and did not create new drivers for printers that were older than a certain date.

Your only real option is a new printer.

You might try running Windows Update to see if Microsoft updated the printer driver.

Chas

by quaint_data

You will find this a lot upgrading to xp, however try simply finding the latest drivers for you printer even though you will still get the eror message from xp about digital signed drivers usually if you can get the latest it should be ok. My husband has a HP printer with is xp.

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