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by msssuprise May 11, 2002 last reply Aug 9, 2002 1 view

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Have old panasonic printer KX-P1180, no disc had windows 98 no problem could add the printer just fine, but not that I have windows 98 second edition I can't add my panasonic printer! please tell me how I can use my printer again

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by thechas May 11, 2002

Windows regularly drops built in drivers for what are considdered "older" products.
Also, W98SE has a very limited set of built-in drivers.

Try the driver from this link.

http://www.panasonic.com/support/software/printers.html

Remove any spaces from the pasted link.

Chas

by msssuprise Aug 9, 2002

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by saihib May 11, 2002

Uninstall SE, it hoses a boatload of programs.

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by donbrafford May 14, 2002

This might sound really dumb however I have found it to work on serveral systems. I have loaded the HP4 driver and my old printer worked just fine. You might want to give it a try.

Hope that it helps you out.

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by bugzapper May 17, 2002

I have had some success with using the IBM Proprinter driver for older printers, if that driver is available in your list.

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by your mom 2.0 May 22, 2002

Add it as generic / text only and see what happens.

Or are we all just missing the point, and the "disc" you're referring to is the 98se CD? If that's the case, see if the setup files (.cab) files are saved on your hard disk somewhere. Usually it'll be C:\Windows\Options\Cabs .

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