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Network Printing Issue with Vista

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by brandon_kirkpatrick

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Hey this is my first post but I'm pretty desperate for an answer. Heres my setup:

Print server with about 35 printers setup locally to be shared across the network.

200+ xp machines
15-17 recently upgraded Vista machines

heres the problem.
When attempting to connect to and install a certain (hp lj4200)printer locally on vista machine, i get an error message(0x0000001f) and it states that windows in is unable to connect to said printer. (this problem also occurs randomly with other printers, sometimes a ricoh, sometimes lexmark)
This printer works fine with xp, so im thinking driver problems. SO i search for the latest driver, which is under the same name from the hp site(pcl 6), but it has a time stamp of march27, 2007. Install drivers, same issue. Then about an hour later it works , but then whenever an xp machine attempts, it gets an error saying that the paper size is wrong and to please manual feed.
We have support for every layer that this problem is occuring, but I'm sure that HP will blame our network support, and vice versa.
If any has any idea or something for me to try, I'm open. These vista upgrades are mandatory, so this problem has to come to rest at some point.

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by squirrelking

I was having your exact same problem and I found this solution on some small wi-fi forum so now I'm posting everywhere that I can.

- On Vista PC go to "Control Panel" - "Printers" - "Add printer".
- Believe or not, click "Add a local printer" (I know you want to add a network printer but that way it doesn't work).
- Click "Create a new port" - "Local Port" - "Next"
- In the next box you have to enter a port name like this:
\\PC name\Printer name
where "PC name" is the network name of the XP PC or Network Share where you have the printer and "Printer name" is the network name of that printer. Be careful with this names. Check in your XP PC "Control Panel" - "Printers and faxes" - "your printer" - right click - "share" - "share resources name"
- Choose the manufacturer and printer model of the printer you are adding.
- Now the printer will be added and you can print a test page or print something to test it.

Hope it helps until MS fixes it!

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