connecting a network printer to W7
Hi,I have a small home network with an HP932c printer connected to a Win2k machine which is shared on my network. It works fine with my other networked computers.Enter W7. I go to Add Printer on local network. W7 searches the network and finds the printer. It installs the drivers and says OK. Go to print a test page and nothing. Can't print anything to my networked printer from W7. No error messages, no nothing.Whats the trick?
January 29th, 2009 7:27pm

I've had a similar issue with my printer, so this is probably a bug in this build of the beta. I guess the easiest solution would be to manually install the latest Vista 32-bits/64-bits for your HP printer.
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January 29th, 2009 10:46pm

I did not have any issues connecting to my networked printer, it may have to do with W2K. My printer is on XP PRO.
January 30th, 2009 1:00am

I have my Win 7 computer (no dual boot) connected to a DIR-655 D-Link router by ethernet cable. My other computers (mix of XP and Vista) are connected wirelessly. The problem here is that the Win 7 computer cannot connect with the HP C7280 wireless printer. I have installed the driver manually andattempted tothrough "add printer" in printers folder,but the computer and printer refuse to "talk" to each other. It recognized an HPD1420 printer that is connected directly by USB and automatically installed the driver, but cannot find the wireless network printer. (The path between the computer and printer is ethernet from computer to router and wireless from router to printer.)John Shelton
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January 30th, 2009 10:13pm

Hi again, HP does not show any Windows Vista 930c drivers on it's web site. They say that the driver is "Built-in". I had the same problem with Vista Release Candidate 1. I received a suggestion which said: Go to "add a printer" Select "Local port" Identify the port as \\downstairs\hp930c (the computer where the printer is attached and it's share name. Then you selected the printer driver from the drop downs. Vista had a driver. This worked OK with Vista but not W7. Maybe the problem is that W7 doesn't have an included 930c driver yet?
January 30th, 2009 10:48pm

Try using the Windows update button during printer install to get the driver. Be advised it takes around 10 minutes for the drivers to appear after pressing Windows update.
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January 30th, 2009 11:41pm

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