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HI All
Can anybody please help me with this problem before the printer goes
out of the window !?
I have a Panasonic KX-P6500 - which I would like to talk to my main pc
- WinXP (sp2).
The supplied drivers only go up to win98 / xp - so I've trawled the
web and found several downloads - none of which work reliably on the
XP box. Typical problems include a complete refusal to print (on the
GDI mode) and corrupted characters in the PCL mode.
Out of curiousity, I installed the printer on my old win95 laptop.
Works fine in GDI & PCL, also allows the XP box to print to the
printer through the ethernet.
Kind of inconvenient to use the laptop as a print server - so
installed a parallel socket on the back of the other desk machine (win
98se) - and installed the printer on there. Local printing is fine.
Printing from the laptop to the win98se machine is fine.
BUT - now the darned XP box won't recognise the printer that's
attached to the win98se box.....
Starting to run out of ideas (& patience!)
No response from Panasonic themselves.
I'd even settle for a 300dpi-only solution - after all - it's only to
let me print out (cheap) bulk notices for our local church - the
inkjet does a great job but costs a fortune in ink to run.....
Ideal situation would be Panasonic printer attached directly to the XP
box - 2nd-best would be networked via the Win98se box......
Any suggestions (apart from 'buy a different printer'!) gratefully
recieved
Many thanks
Adrian
Suffolk UK
HI All
Can anybody please help me with this problem before the printer goes
out of the window !?
I have a Panasonic KX-P6500 - which I would like to talk to my main pc
- WinXP (sp2).
The supplied drivers only go up to win98 / xp - so I've trawled the
web and found several downloads - none of which work reliably on the
XP box. Typical problems include a complete refusal to print (on the
GDI mode) and corrupted characters in the PCL mode.
Out of curiousity, I installed the printer on my old win95 laptop.
Works fine in GDI & PCL, also allows the XP box to print to the
printer through the ethernet.
Kind of inconvenient to use the laptop as a print server - so
installed a parallel socket on the back of the other desk machine (win
98se) - and installed the printer on there. Local printing is fine.
Printing from the laptop to the win98se machine is fine.
BUT - now the darned XP box won't recognise the printer that's
attached to the win98se box.....
Starting to run out of ideas (& patience!)
No response from Panasonic themselves.
I'd even settle for a 300dpi-only solution - after all - it's only to
let me print out (cheap) bulk notices for our local church - the
inkjet does a great job but costs a fortune in ink to run.....
Ideal situation would be Panasonic printer attached directly to the XP
box - 2nd-best would be networked via the Win98se box......
Any suggestions (apart from 'buy a different printer'!) gratefully
recieved
Many thanks
Adrian
Suffolk UK