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W2K Term Serv. Printing

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by aspasa

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Please can someone suggest a 'no brainer' HP printer that 'just works' and sets itself up and prints under W2K Terminal Server back to a Win'98 Client?

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by reference

Pretty much they all will work, except for the x20 series printers, 720, 722, 920, 822, etc..I've seen issues with DOS programs on these, more than likely your just experiencing Driver name incompatibility issues, as described in Q239088. The problem is that the driver name on your 98 machine is something like DeskJet 693c Series v1.2 - and the 2000 driver name is just DeskJet 693c it's the 'Series v1.2' that throws 2000 off. the instructions in Q239088 should help until they FIX this ridiculous problem in Service Pack 3!

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by the way, the no-brainer part would be to add a printer that has drivers loaded in win98 already, like a DeskJet 690, 693c, 875cse, 1600..etc pretty much any of the drivers that you can see when you click add new printer, click HP, and look at thelist of printers on the right hand side. Just use the built-in drivers, not updated or downloaded, or CD drivers. these driver names are usually compatable with the 2000 driver names, and thus...no-brainer! The problem is, sometimes these drivers don't function as well as the updated or downloaded ones, this is why they've updated them. Anyway, hope it helps!

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