coonnect HP 2500L PLC6 printer shared from a Windows 2003 server to a Windows 7 x64 laptop
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012 12:18 PMHP 2500L PCL6 networked (from a Windows 2003 server) printer cannot be connected to a Windows 7 x64 laptop. Driver cannot be found. If I load as if it is a local printer, I can load a color laserjet 2500 PCL 5 driver., but still Windows Update does not find a driver for the network printer. If I manually point the printer install program to the .inf file from the driver installed as if local, it errors with cannot find a driver for your printer. There is no PCL 5 driver offeedr by HP. Tried loading a Universal PCL 5 driver (on the server), but that does not print properly and WIndows 7 laptop still cannot link to it. Is the problem the difference between PCL 5 and 6? If yes, is there a PCL 6 driver available for Windows 7. If not, any suggestions as to how I might link to networked printer??
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012 3:02 PMThe problem is you need to 64 bit driver for the windows machine. More than likely the driver you are trying to install is 32 bit
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:35 PMModerator
Hi,
According to this link: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=81954&swItem=lj-7645-4&prodNameId=81971&swEnvOID=1005&swLang=8&mode=4&idx=2
HP have not released a Windows 7 driver for your printer. Please contact HP to obtain the compatible driver for Windows 7 64 bit.
Tracy Cai
TechNet Community Support
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:34 PM
Found this answer which worked
installed a local printer on LPT2 usingt he HP 2500 PCL 5 driver in Windows 7
at a command prompt entered
net use LPT2 \\servername\sharedprintername /presistent:yesnow have working network printer
- Proposed As Answer by Tracy CaiMicrosoft Contingent Staff, Moderator Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:00 AM
- Marked As Answer by Alex ZhaozxMicrosoft Contingent Staff, Moderator Monday, October 22, 2012 9:53 AM
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