HP 7960 - Workgroup Printing not sharing

Of course I installed the 64bit drivers!

The .inf files don't seem to be under the HP directories.

"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Which drivers did you install on the Vista PC. It's looking for 64 bit
> drivers which you need on the Vista PC, not 32 bit ones.
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> Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
> www.coribright.com/windows
>
> "David B" <David B.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2E17F15D-5B6B-4F1C-91D2-92FA6E5FCCE1@microsoft.com...
> > Hello! Using HP Photosmart 7960 as shared printer off of XP Pro SP2
> > machine.
> > Works great for the other XP machines that share it. Tried to connect
> > (via
> > network share) my (new) 64Bit Vista Home Premium box to this printer. Of
> > course, it asked for the Vista printer drivers, which do exist.
> >
> > So, the challenge - the drivers won't install on the XP machine, as they
> > are
> > Vista drivers and error out (simple message saying wrong OS). Installed
> > the
> > drivers on the Vista machine, which should solve the problem...it didn't.
> > Went thru both HP directories (under x86 programs) looking for the *.inf
> > files and according to Vista, none of them are correct. I've tried them
> > all.
> >
> > Any ideas or help is appreciated! Thanks! David.
> >
> >
>

I have this exact same problem, does anyone have an answer?


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jrh

When I contacted HP support they said sharing was not supported between
the two operating systems. This won't be much help, but so far here is
what I've determined. On the XP machine, the driver is identified as a
Photosmart 7900. If you install the local (not network) printer driver
on the Vista x64 machine, it will be identified as a Photosmart 7960.
For one thing even if the dlls were correct, the inf files would have to
be edited so as to "fool" the system into thinking they were the same
printer.

So, for the time being, someone with a better understating of inf files
is going to have to figure out how to edit the 7900 x64 driver into
thinking it's a 7900. Then at least all of us trying to do the same
thing might have a chance.


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tsberry
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