Hi Wol,
I'll answer both your posts here. We have 2 printers because I have 1 on
my computer downstairs and my wife has one on hers upstairs. Being
disabled neither of us needs to be climbing up and down stairs. When I
say money is tight, it really is - £250 is a small fortune to me right
now. The Dell laser looks like a fantastic deal, though, and if I had
the money, I'd be all over it.
I found myself needing to migrate from XP Home to Windows 7 Pro a little
earlier than I had planned. My XP computer's motherboard was in the
process of a meltdown (literally, capacitors next to the processor were
swollen, ready to explode), but my service guy was able to use Windows
Easy Transfer and get pretty much everything off the XP computer and
onto a new (to me) Win7 Pro 32 bit computer. Since XP will be on its own
as of April 8, I feel somewhat safer. He donated the computer (thank
God), because it was donated to him by a commercial client doing an XP
to Win7 move. They wanted a bigger, faster machine and didn't want to
keep it sitting around.
The printer would print, but the last print job in the queue wouldn't
delete. Scott Richardson put me onto a site where I was able to get
drivers, and instructions for installing them. Setting compatibility to
Vista as the instructions said didn't work, but XP compatibility did.
Now it deletes the last job. Hopefully, by the time I need to move off
Win7, I'll either be able to afford a new printer or be totally retired
and could care less. I'm going to get brave and try to install the
scanning software in XP mode. If that works, I'll be good to go, at
least until one or both of the printers fail.
I always thought drivers resided on the computer, not the printer. Oh
well, learn something new every day.
I hadn't thought about looking for a local charity - I'll definitely do
that. In addition to being disabled, I'm also a vet, so I've extended a
helping hand many times to others. I don't mind being on the receiving
end now.
Thanks,
Charlie
On 03-30-2014 9:30 AM, Anthony Youngman wrote:
On 30/03/14 14:09, fwinans wrote:
If money is tight, why are you flipping to a newer win version that
makes you trash some of your vital equipment? The vendors are _not_
going to keep porting drivers to later windows to accommodate you in
this -- they _really_ want you to buy new gear!
And even if you somehow force the old gizmo to work with win7, you'll
just be going through this same crisis in a few more years when you flip
to yet a newer version of
windows. Suggest you keep a 'relic windows' box on the lan to host all
the old gear.
Will it work. PROBABLY NOT :-(
The problem - with inkjets especially - is that the drivers need to
reside on the printer doing the printing, so if it's on an XP box the
Win7 box still won't be able to print :-(
On 03-30-2014 9:28 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
On 29/03/14 23:07, Charlie Noah wrote:
Hey folks,
I have another somewhat OT need. My wife and I both have Lexmark 6150
multifunction printers. We use both the printing and scanning functions.
Copying is internal to the printer, so that still works, and we don't
need the fax capability (we have an internet solution for that so long
as we can scan documents). I don't even remember what the 5th function
is, so we probably don't need it.
The problem is that I have moved to Win7 32 bit, and my wife will very
soon. Our printers aren't supported by Win7 and there are no drivers
available. Mine will print fairly well, but the print jobs won't close.
The multifunction software which came with the printers and is needed
for the scanner will not work on Win7.
These printers work fine, and we hate to just dispose of them, because
of the environmental impact (even recycling -it's good to be green), and
because we just can't afford to buy new printers. To get the functions
we need will cost somewhere between $60-$150 each. $60 is very low-end.
We are both disabled and have very minimal income.
Does anyone out there know of any software to enable the scanning
function, and/or a driver that will make the printer work better?
Windows 7 Professional? That has a compatibility mode to run XP
software, so it SHOULD run your scanner software okay. If you've got 7
Home, sorry you're out of luck there.
I've seen the other post that may work better though.
But I would ask why you have two printers? Is it because they are only
USB printers? I know you don't have much money to buy a new printer, but
we got a Dell 1355 plus four sets of cartridges for about £250. Maybe
you can find a similiar deal (it was "buy 4 sets of cartridges, get a
free printer", and at £20 a laser cartridge, that's cheap!). That said,
you can tell the printer's cheap and cheerful, when the cartridges run
out we'll probably dump it and buy another one the same way...
Look at the spec for this laser ...
http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk/?sct=dell1765nfw
Especially under scanning features where it says SMB.
If you can find an mfp like that it's wireless, so you'll only need one
to share. That SMB means you push scans from the scanner to the
computer, rather than running a program to pull them.
The other thing is, I don't know what you've got around you by way of
charities. I'm planning to apply to one of our local charities for £2000
worth of camera gear! If you've got the same sort of thing near you they
might well buy you a modern new printer.
Cheers,
Wol
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