Hi, I've got a Windows 7 64-bit machine with a Brother HL-1440 printer attached to it via USB. I've also got an XP Home Edition laptop, and I'd like to be able to print over my home wireless connection to the 1440. I used to be able to do this when I was printing from this laptop to the same printer on an XP Professional machine. But now, even though I can see the printer fine on the network, and all other aspects of the home network are working fine, I can't set the laptop to print through the Win7's printer. I get stopped dead in my tracks by an inability to get the proper driver for the XP machine. It won't install the driver from the local machine, and it won't install the driver from the Win7 machine where I've created a directory with the XP version of the 1440 driver. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Can you download the driver directly from Brother and install it on your local machine?-B- http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook

Hi, Yes, I can download the driver to the XP and install the printer locally, but when I go to connect to the Brother attached to the Win7, I get told the server doesn't have the right drivers, and it won't accept the drivers I've just downloaded locally (it rejects them after I click on the .inf file). It's the darndest thing...

I've manually installed the driver to no avail - even when I attached the printer directly to my win7 64 computer. I finally worked around the issue by using XP mode with a 32 bit driver, which is a pretty heavy-weight workaround... I've got a lot of years experience with this stuff, and it seems to me that that the issue is with the 64 bit driver interaction when installing the driver locally and with trying to install a 64 bit driver from an XP 32 bit machine when accessing the printer over a network.

I've manually installed the driver to no avail - even when I attached the printer directly to my win7 64 computer. I finally worked around the issue by using XP mode with a 32 bit driver, which is a pretty heavy-weight workaround... I've got a lot of years experience with this stuff, and it seems to me that that the issue is with the 64 bit driver interaction when installing the driver locally and with trying to install a 64 bit driver from an XP 32 bit machine when accessing the printer over a network. Probably is a 32/64 bit driver issue. Does Brother make a 64-bit driver for the unit?-B- http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook

I have very similar issue, worked all day to no avail, and have a 32bit machine. Brother printer. First installed on desktop, then on laptop (drivers, software, etc). Can see printer in printers folder but cannot print even though it says the printer is ready. Tried Brother's alternate setup of connecting pritner directly to wirelesss modem. laptop still can see the wireless device running through the wizard.Running XP SP3. Brother MFC-495CW.