cannot install Lexmark 3500 - 4500 series printer on Vista..

Hello everyone I have the same problem . I have a lexmark X3550
all-in-one. I have down loaded the driver cjb3500-4500en.exe for
lexmark wed site. I had to go into my regedit to fully unstall the
drivers that came with the printer. I was able to inslall the drivers
for the web site but now I have and error that says communition not
availiable. I gone one step forward and two step. What next?


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d075567

With many hours of fighting and phone calls, yes. Lexmark was no help at all.
They said the problem was not with their installer. At any rate, I had to
manually uninstall all my usb devices, and then let them reinstall. When it
came up and choked on the Lexmark, I did a update drivers manually and found
the drivers I needed to install in
Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository. Look for the folders marked
lxdiprc.inf and lxdiscan.inf. Good luck. I had to do this several times
before it finally took. In fact, it kept on knocking out all of my other usb
drivers for some odd reason, but with much effort and frustration managed to
get them all installed and working. I think MS needs to do some serious work
on Vista. Personally I dont it should have been released yet being this
buggy.
"Grady" wrote:

> Have you solved this problem? I just bought one tonight and have the same
> issue on a 3500 which uses the same driver. Vista Ultimate here as well.
>
> "robin29" wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > Has anyone successfully installed Lexmark X 4500 printer on 32bit Vista
> > Ulimate ??
> >
> > I have been at it for a few days also with tech support and so far no
> > luck.
> >
> > I had downloaded the vista driver software from the Lexmark web site
> > *cjb3500-4500en.exe* - it installs the software but cant find the vista
> > driver
> >
> >
> > I have tried a clean uninstall, reinstalling the drivers, installing
> > the drivers manually with add printers, and nothing has worked!!! also
> > restored the vista to a before point and reinstalled still no use.
> >
> > I don't think support is going to help me anymore and I absolutely have
> > no more ideas on how to make this work with Vista Ulimate 32bit. So I
> > want to know if I am alone out there, or if anyone has had success
> > installing their Lexmark X4500 printer...
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your time.
> >
> > - Robin
> >
> >
> > --
> > robin29
> >

I fought this for a few hours last night myself. Vista Enterprise on my work
laptop. Originally I got a failure about being unable to create a port. I
uninstalled completely and tried again. The installer indicated it was
successful but I had no printer listed in the control panel. I went through
manually creating a TCP/IP type of port using the Lexmark "type"...that was
closer to working and eventually had me pick the .inf out of the extracted
drivers (none of which are labeled for Vista that I could tell). THEN I got
a failure notification that my admin had set a policy against using NT4.0
drivers (which is a work thing). BUT, is what Lexmark is claiming is the
Vista driver really just an old NT4 based XP driver???? Ridiculous. When
someone figures out what is so great about Vista please let me know.

Hey guys
i fought it for 4 days and found a solution. go to Properties of
Printer and change the Port to the actual IP address (i am using it
wireless). immediately it worked for me.
let me know


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Jamaican

I have a similar problem. I have a Lexmark 3500 wireless printer which works
successfully with several computers using XP. It works both with a USB
connection and wirelessly,

My new laptop is runnign on Vista, and while I can print on the Lexmark when
I connect the laptop with a USB cable, I am unable to get it to print
wirelessly. it doesn't see the printer when I browse for it. When I use the
IP address, it thinks it can see, and when asked to print a test page, goes
through all the motions, saying fianlly that it has printed, but nothing
happens at the printer.

Are there any other suggestions?

Thanks
--
epzcaw


"Jamaican" wrote:

>
> Hey guys
> i fought it for 4 days and found a solution. go to Properties of
> Printer and change the Port to the actual IP address (i am using it
> wireless). immediately it worked for me.
> let me know
>
>
> --
> Jamaican
>

The system is now working - I can print wirelessly from Vista laptop. I ahve
no idea why - I didnt think had changed anything but obviously must have. I
think it may be to do with using the IP address.

It's a battle field...
--
epzcaw


"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> What does Lexmark say about this issue?
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
> www.coribright.com/windows
>
> "epzcaw" <epzcaw RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4364FE60-087C-4351-9A4B-ACFAAB29593E@microsoft.com...
> >I have a similar problem. I have a Lexmark 3500 wireless printer which
> >works
> > successfully with several computers using XP. It works both with a USB
> > connection and wirelessly,
> >
> > My new laptop is runnign on Vista, and while I can print on the Lexmark
> > when
> > I connect the laptop with a USB cable, I am unable to get it to print
> > wirelessly. it doesn't see the printer when I browse for it. When I use
> > the
> > IP address, it thinks it can see, and when asked to print a test page,
> > goes
> > through all the motions, saying fianlly that it has printed, but nothing
> > happens at the printer.
> >
> > Are there any other suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
> > epzcaw
> >
> >
> > "Jamaican" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hey guys
> >> i fought it for 4 days and found a solution. go to Properties of
> >> Printer and change the Port to the actual IP address (i am using it
> >> wireless). immediately it worked for me.
> >> let me know
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jamaican
> >>
>