Printer driver confusion

[Guest carl43m]

I have an older desktop with windows XP Home operating system. Recently I

took an old laser printer(9 years old) and hooked it directly to the pc. The

mfg. web site (Xerox) shows that it did not have a driver for xp or vista for

this printer. However, after I hooked up the printer to the pc , it works.

 

I went to control panel/system/hardware/device manager to see what driver

might be available to run the printer. However, there was no category for

imaging devices which would seem to indicate no driver was loaded for the

printer.

Does anyone know why this printer is working for me as it doesn't look like

there is any driver on the pc to make the printer run?

Thanks.

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Printer driver confusion

 

Try looking in the Print Server Properties to see what driver is being

used. (See Print Server in Windows Help)

 

carl43m wrote:

> I have an older desktop with windows XP Home operating system. Recently I

> took an old laser printer(9 years old) and hooked it directly to the pc. The

> mfg. web site (Xerox) shows that it did not have a driver for xp or vista for

> this printer. However, after I hooked up the printer to the pc , it works.

>

> I went to control panel/system/hardware/device manager to see what driver

> might be available to run the printer. However, there was no category for

> imaging devices which would seem to indicate no driver was loaded for the

> printer.

> Does anyone know why this printer is working for me as it doesn't look like

> there is any driver on the pc to make the printer run?

> Thanks.

[Guest smlunatick]

Re: Printer driver confusion

 

On Aug 8, 6:11 pm, carl43m <carl...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I have an older desktop with windows XP Home operating system. Recently I

> took an old laser printer(9 years old) and hooked it directly to the pc.  The

> mfg. web site (Xerox) shows that it did not have a driver for xp or vista for

> this printer.  However, after I hooked up the printer to the pc , it works.

>

> I went to control panel/system/hardware/device manager to see what driver

> might be available to run the printer.  However, there was no category for

> imaging devices which would seem to indicate no driver was loaded for the

> printer.

> Does anyone know why this printer is working for me as it doesn't look like

> there is any driver on the pc to make the printer run?

> Thanks.

 

Printers do not normally show up in Device Manager, unless they are

"Plug and Play." The printer always show up in the "Printers and

Faxes" in Control Panel. You PC just may happen to have a compatible

driver already installed. Several laser printer might be directly

compatible with a standard HP Laserjet II driver.