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printer wont work in vista

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Dutchmaster420

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my hp printer wont work with vista and i remember reading on here that hp is not coming out with drivers on vista for old printers



will any new printer i buy today work with vista pretty much or should i look for certain ones or what?


edot: on a side question totally seperate...my pc makes a low beep noise only when im typing everyonce and a while....its so short when it happens i cant really tell where its coming from...any ideas?
 
I would check at HP's site to see if Vista drivers will be available. They have had a notation in this regard for every printer I have had to check so far. An AIO is always going to be a problem in a new OS if the manufacturer doesn't support it. You may get it to print, but the rest of the functions most likely will not work.

I will make a blanket statement that yes, any new printer will eventually work in Vista. I would check the website to see before you buy. My boss just bought a 6310 AIO that does not have Vista drivers yet. The website does state that they are coming.

It also says that minimal drivers are built into Vista right now. His problem is that he has it connected to his router. I need to get over there to see if I can assign a static internal IP to the printer and change the port in Vista to get it to print until full-featured drivers come out.

Hope some of this helps.
 
HP website says Vista has built in drivers. That's how it worked with my HP printers and scanner. HP says they will come out with a "full" solution, but everything works fine on mine with Vista.
 
I have an HP photosmart 7150 printer. There no vista drivers for it. For my printer, when I click on the link for vista drivers, it brings me to somepage that has a work around for the drivers. It said to use someother hp printer driver. Like if you had a photosmart 7100, it said use the deskjet 600c drivers that are built into vista.
 
Are we talking 64 or 32 bit Vista here? I have 64 bit Vista Ultimate and my HP Laserjet 1012 sometimes works, mostly buggy things go wrong. My Canon canoscan n1240u scanner doesn't work and from what I've been able to deduce with Canon, will never work. I also can't overclock my 8800GTS card which sucks. And no flash or shockwave plugins for Internet Explorer.
 
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Seems like MS is becoming more Apple-ish. No legacy support for older apps or drivers or HW.
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MS has nothing to do with that - directly anyway. Every vendor works with MS to build in a certain level of support.... If HP chose not to work with MS to build in a base driver function for a printer series, then it was primarily HP's decision, not MS.
 
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Seems like MS is becoming more Apple-ish. No legacy support for older apps or drivers or HW.
Click to expand...

FFS, don't spread BS :roll:

Vista has sh!tloads of drivers built in, so many that the majority of peripherals work w/o even loading drivers.

Way better than XP in that regard.

And the OP didn't need to make this post.

If he would have went to HP's site, he would have discovered this:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docu...en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=374568&lang=en
 
Originally posted by: Oyeve
Seems like MS is becoming more Apple-ish. No legacy support for older apps or drivers or HW.
Click to expand...



My Vista x64 has native drivers for my Canon i865 printer.
Btw it seems Canon and Epson printers seem to have better Vista support then HP.
 
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