Not sure if this is where to ask, but thought it was worth a try......
Old friend of mine has a (still functioning) HP Deskjet 850C printer that he can't find the driver disk for, and asked for my help. This is an old parallel-port dinosaur, and he's wanting to use it on a machine running Windows ME (yeah, didn't that just complicate things?? :roll: ).
I tried using the stock windows drivers in ME, which will recognize the printer, and actually bring up the print properties window, but when you tell it okay to print, it gets stuck in the printer queue. I've checked everything I can think of, and think it's just the fact that I need actual drivers for this beast. Windows 98 drivers did NOT work (or, at least, what I found that were advertised as 98 drivers), and HP no longer carries drivers for this beast on their website (gee, wonder if we should contact them, and ask if they want the printer for a museum piece??).
If anyone hoards old disks like I oftentimes do, and/or has access to drivers that will actually work, I'd appreciate any effort on your part. I already priced out a cable that would do the usb to centronics (since he actually still wanted to use this printer on his new Dell he just got, that comes without a parallel port), but at ~$20 shipped, it's almost as much as a new printer.
Help make an old man happy, won't you??
Old friend of mine has a (still functioning) HP Deskjet 850C printer that he can't find the driver disk for, and asked for my help. This is an old parallel-port dinosaur, and he's wanting to use it on a machine running Windows ME (yeah, didn't that just complicate things?? :roll: ).
I tried using the stock windows drivers in ME, which will recognize the printer, and actually bring up the print properties window, but when you tell it okay to print, it gets stuck in the printer queue. I've checked everything I can think of, and think it's just the fact that I need actual drivers for this beast. Windows 98 drivers did NOT work (or, at least, what I found that were advertised as 98 drivers), and HP no longer carries drivers for this beast on their website (gee, wonder if we should contact them, and ask if they want the printer for a museum piece??).
If anyone hoards old disks like I oftentimes do, and/or has access to drivers that will actually work, I'd appreciate any effort on your part. I already priced out a cable that would do the usb to centronics (since he actually still wanted to use this printer on his new Dell he just got, that comes without a parallel port), but at ~$20 shipped, it's almost as much as a new printer.
Help make an old man happy, won't you??
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