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Wireless Network Printer
Name: efs2 Date: February 12, 2009 at 12:34:48 Pacific OS: Windows XP Subcategory: General
Comment:
Greetings: I have a home wireless network that serves a tower PC loaded with Windows XP SP3 and a laptop running Vista Home SP1.
I have a Canon printer that is directly connected to the laptop when it is home and which serves the tower PC thorugh the network.
The printer works fine except that I must re-install it on the tower PC each time I shut down the tower PC and then fire it back up.
Also, even when I cannot print from the tower PC, the printer still shows up in the folder accessible through the control panel. Nor do I get an error message when I send a print command from the tower PC. The printer simply does not print.
There is no event other thans shutting down the tower PC that triggers the problem that I have seen.
Name: jefro Date: February 12, 2009 at 13:46:06 Pacific
Reply:
"The printer works fine except that I must re-install it on the tower PC each time I shut down the tower PC and then fire it back up."
How do you install it?
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Response Number 2
Name: efs2 Date: February 12, 2009 at 20:11:11 Pacific
Reply:
I delete the printer in the "Printers and Faxes" folder accessible through the control panel and then use the "add a printer" wizard available in the same folder.
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