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How can I get a win98 box to print to an hp deskjet 722c printer attached to a win2000 advanced server box on the network?

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by xpertdragon

The HP Deskjet 722c printer is attached to the Win 2000 server by what means? USB cable? Parallel cable? Or does it already have its own Printer share or IP address?

If it is attached to the Win2k server by a regular parallel cable, you can perform a recent suggestion posted by Techrepublic, and create a network share for the printer via the LPT1 Port that it might already be on.

Or maybe you could just share the printer with a share name under Printer Properties, with a name like 'dj722c', and have every machine that wants to print to it, do it through the Windows 2000 Server printer share name. They would all be setup to use a network printer, and find that printer on the Windows 2000 adanced server.

Paul M. Chavez

by ptchtech

If I recall correctly the deskjet 722c does not have a normal driver on a disk. It is setup through a setup program. This makes it impossible to add the windows 98 driver to the "additional drivers" for the printer on the windows server. The 98 box requires this to be able to use the shared printer. My suggestion would be to see if the driver could be extracted out of the 98 setup program. Check out if HP has added the standalone driver to their printer driver download site. Or try to use a driver to another deskjet that has an available driver that is not wrapped up in an installation program, and see if it works.
Last suggestion would be to call HP and ask where you can get the driver. - Good luck

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