Guest Teflon Posted July 14, 2007 Posted July 14, 2007 Needed a cheap way to create quick hardcopy on the road, so bought a SiPix Printer A6 on eBay. All eBay vendor listings state it will work with all WIN OS's thru XP. However, the install disk only has drivers thru 2000. One vendor's eBay listing has a link to download the 'XP Driver', did that, but it's just thesame 2000 driver that's on the CD. Started to install that and got the XP gloom and doom warnings 'Not Signed', 'Not for XP', etc., so I stopped. My questions, will installing a WIN2000 driver damage XP? Will it work? If not, does anyone have another souce I might look to for a driver for this printer? Tried to find the mfgr's website, but no luck. The device connects via InfaRed and serial, but since there is no serial connector on my laptop, have to go with IR. Thanks.
Guest Elmo Posted July 15, 2007 Posted July 15, 2007 Re: SiPix printer driver for XP Teflon wrote: > Needed a cheap way to create quick hardcopy on the road, so bought a > SiPix Printer A6 on eBay. > > All eBay vendor listings state it will work with all WIN OS's thru > XP. However, the install disk only has drivers thru 2000. One > vendor's eBay listing has a link to download the 'XP Driver', did > that, but it's just thesame 2000 driver that's on the CD. > > Started to install that and got the XP gloom and doom warnings 'Not > Signed', 'Not for XP', etc., so I stopped. > > My questions, will installing a WIN2000 driver damage XP? Will it > work? If not, does anyone have another souce I might look to for a > driver for this printer? Tried to find the mfgr's website, but no > luck. > > The device connects via InfaRed and serial, but since there is no > serial connector on my laptop, have to go with IR. > > Thanks. Here's an XP driver that might work: http://www.buymebuyme.com/retail/downloads/SiPixA6XP.exe From: http://www.buymebuyme.com/retail/catalog/product_44220_SiPix_Pocket_Printer_A6__Mobile_Printer__Blue.html -- Joe =o)
Guest Teflon Posted July 15, 2007 Posted July 15, 2007 Re: SiPix printer driver for XP > > Here's an XP driver that might work: > > http://www.buymebuyme.com/retail/downloads/SiPixA6XP.exe > Thanks for your response. That's also the only driver I could find online. Though they include XP in the title, it is really the same WIN2000 driver that's on the printer's Install CD. That's why I also asked if a WIN2000 driver would work on XP, OR, more importantly, could it do any damage if it didn't work. Anyone know the answer to that?
Guest Elmo Posted July 15, 2007 Posted July 15, 2007 Re: SiPix printer driver for XP Teflon wrote: >> Here's an XP driver that might work: >> >> http://www.buymebuyme.com/retail/downloads/SiPixA6XP.exe >> > > Thanks for your response. That's also the only driver I could find > online. Though they include XP in the title, it is really the same > WIN2000 driver that's on the printer's Install CD. > > That's why I also asked if a WIN2000 driver would work on XP, OR, more > importantly, could it do any damage if it didn't work. > > Anyone know the answer to that? It shouldn't do damage and may work. Nothing is 100% though, the drivers could possibly send an errant code and maybe lock up the printer, or make a reference to non-existent code in a .dll file. The printer won't burn up, or short out.. -- Joe =o)
Guest Teflon Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Re: SiPix printer driver for XP > > It shouldn't do damage and may work. Nothing is 100% though, the > drivers could possibly send an errant code and maybe lock up the > printer, or make a reference to non-existent code in a .dll file. The > printer won't burn up, or short out.. > Thank you for the encouragement. I installed the driver, my machine did not lock-up or die (yet) and the printer did not start smoking, in fact, it connected via the IR port and VOILA, Windows printed a test page. Will wonders never cease. Next thing I need is a pair of magnifying glasses. The entire page is reduced to fit on 4" wide thermo paper. Talk about fine print. But it is just what I needed. Thanks again, and for anyone else who is wondering, this WIN2000 driver worked on an XP machine.
Guest Elmo Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Re: SiPix printer driver for XP Teflon wrote: >> It shouldn't do damage and may work. Nothing is 100% though, the >> drivers could possibly send an errant code and maybe lock up the >> printer, or make a reference to non-existent code in a .dll file. The >> printer won't burn up, or short out.. >> > Thank you for the encouragement. I installed the driver, my machine > did not lock-up or die (yet) and the printer did not start smoking, in > fact, it connected via the IR port and VOILA, Windows printed a test > page. Will wonders never cease. > > Next thing I need is a pair of magnifying glasses. The entire page is > reduced to fit on 4" wide thermo paper. Talk about fine print. But > it is just what I needed. > > Thanks again, and for anyone else who is wondering, this WIN2000 > driver worked on an XP machine. Great news! And thanks for reporting back. -- Joe =o)
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