Re: home xp laptop can't print using win 98 printer

On the XP PC, download the XP drivers for your printer from the Lexmark
website. Use something like WinRAR to unzip the package.

Use the Add Printer Wizard to add the printer to the XP PC. After it finds
the printer on the 98 PC, it will ask for drivers. Point it to the unzipped
package of drivers that you expanded with the WinRAR software.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"Dave60" <Dave60@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Cari, thank you.. but.. please see following:

Article 6 states, among other things (which I accomplished, like making
the
printer a shared printer, no more than 12 char and no spaces ).... states
that I need to select the operating system of the other PC that I want to
be
able to use this printer. The other operating system is XP, and the
Windows
98 does not show any XP operating system to check..

What do I do now?....

(I did go to Lexmark site , I obtained drivers for XP, and put them on the
XP machine , using the Add Printer Wizard on that machine, thinking that
perhaps that would solve this problem.. ) Should I have done that?..
Should
I try to get Windows 98 drivers onto the XP machine?.. Is that even
possible?



"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

You didn't install the XP drivers.... See:
http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_Six.htm
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"Dave60" <Dave60@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have windows home xp on laptop wirelessly connected to network with
windows
98 which has printer. I want to use the printer as a shared printer.

when i try to print using that printer, it gives me error saying "could
not
start print job" and.. even tho printer shows as if was shared...
and..
marked as default printer on the laptop.. it still does not seem to be
responding to any commands.

printer works fine on the windows 98 desktop (but then, it is hard
wired
to
the win98 computer

How can i get my printer that is connected to the win 98 machine to be
used
in the wireless network so that my laptop win home xp machine can
access
it?

Any help would be appreciated





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