Design jet 600 plotter

[jdito40]

Hello,
I have a design jet 600 plotter and upgraded computer to a windows 7 platform and cant find a driver for this plotter. HP is not supporting it. I cant get the computer to see the printer. Any ideas?

 

[dogman_1234]

Did it come with a disk?

 

[PhilFrisbie]

Is that plotter connected by USB or parallel cable? If USB you can try installing a copy of XP in a virtual machine (Win7 Pro XP mode, VirtualBox, etc.) and plot from there. If it is parallel then you will also need a USB to parallel adapter because most virtualization software does not support parallel ports.

 

[jdito40]

Is that plotter connected by USB or parallel cable? If USB you can try installing a copy of XP in a virtual machine (Win7 Pro XP mode, VirtualBox, etc.) and plot from there. If it is parallel then you will also need a USB to parallel adapter because most virtualization software does not support parallel ports.

I connect thru usb port. I have heard that switching window 7 to the xp pro mode but I cant seem to find how and where to do that. I have a standard version of window 7 with HP vision amd 64 bit

 

[jdito40]

Did it come with a disk?

No I dont have a disk. I have xp software downloaded but no windows 7 versions available to download. I heard if I swith window 7 to xp mode it may see it however I cant find how to swith it over.

 

[dogman_1234]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx