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by kathy

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I am having trouble adding HP 1600 Laserjet onto my network.
all other pc,s are running xp and the problem is adding the vista pc

i can see the printer on the network but will not let me access it to connect.

Any ideas?

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by rbtechguy

I did a quick search if the HP 1600 Laserjet. Specs say USB connection only? Not sure how you are able to see this on the network? Connected to another pc? Add-on network card?

by itadmin

1)Connect printer via USB port to the workstation.
2)Install the printer.
3) Being an administrator, go to printer and faxes in control panel, right click HP 1600 and go to sharing and security.
4) Choose share printer like HP1600, in security tab be aware that Everyone is granted access to print.
5) Disable any antivirus firewall, if any.
6) Add printer on other machines. if you are running Vista, it will require to install driver. The driver will be installed automatically.
Good luck.

by itadmin

Hi, I had the same problem. I solved it by disabling personal firewall of Norton Internet security on the machines. Moreover, it took place only on HP machines, while DELL workstations were working without any problem. Now, the printer is seen in the network, we can connect it, but when trying to print from another user (not the machine it is connected to), no signal goes until restaring the print spooler. I am trying to solve this problem now.

by itadmin

1)Connect printer via USB port to the workstation.
2)Install the printer.
3) Being an administrator, go to printer and faxes in control panel, right click HP 1600 and go to sharing and security.
4) Choose share printer like HP1600, in security tab be aware that Everyone is granted access to print.
5) Disable any antivirus firewall, if any.
6) Add printer on other machines. if you are running Vista, it will require to install driver. The driver will be installed automatically.
Good luck.

by Former member

On to the other XP machines. Then on the machine that has the printer installed by usb click on the hdd mark it as "share", you will need to mark the printer as "share" also. On the Vista machine you need to make sure that the computers are all networked together and they are shown in your "network places". You need to have ALL the computers to be on the SAME name on the network like "WORKGROUP", once that is a ok, then you need the machines to have different names so that you can go to the computer that has the usb printer, click on the machine in your "network places" on the Vista machine and click on the hdd and search for the printer once found click on the printer icon and click "connect" this will take a little time, once it is done DO NOT SHUT THE WINDOW, but go to the Printer section in your Start menu. In there (if the printer is not added) click on the "add printer" and select the printer, this should bring the printer and software to the Vista machine. Hope this works for you.
LLTD download here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4F01A31D-EE46-481E-BA11-37F485FA34EA&displaylang=en

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

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