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Networking printer help.

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de8212

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Trying to get my laptop (wireless) to use my printer on my home network. The laptop connects to my main machine (the one with the printer installed) fine. Wehn I try to add the printer. I get an erro on the laptop saying the incorrect driver is installed???? I assume it's referring to the driver on the main pc. Only problem is that it is not the incorrect printer driver. It was downloaded off of canons site and I am 100% certain it is the correct driver.
Anything else I can try?
 
my and my sister have a networked, try getting your printer cd and installing it on your laptop cause the driver stuff, it works for me. jsut use the disk
 
I tried installing the driver on the laptop and got some kind of "module" error. I can do it again to provide the exact error details. I assume it just gave it because there is no printer hooked up to the actual laptop.
 
see if you can just connect to the printer, which will also install it
go to the desktop via its UNC
ex:
sart -> run
//desktopname

you should see the shared printer there. right click on it, and select "connect"

see if that works
 
Make sure the laptop does not have a firewall running. I had this problem and when i shut off the firewall it printed fine.
 
Originally posted by: petey117
see if you can just connect to the printer, which will also install it
go to the desktop via its UNC
ex:
sart -> run
//desktopname

you should see the shared printer there. right click on it, and select "connect"

see if that works
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I'll give that a shot. But wouldn't it be the same as opening up Network Places and navigating through the workgroup to the pc? Either way, I'll try.

Make sure the laptop does not have a firewall running. I had this problem and when i shut off the firewall it printed fine.
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Nope, no firewall.

 
Another alternative you might want to consider is to use a print server. With a print server you can send print jobs whenever you want without having the computer that's attached to the printer be on. I've got print servers attached to two of my printers at home and it works flawlessly. I'm thinking about adding a third printer at home and when I do I'm going to try and get one that already has one built in.
 
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