My Z25 is not a ten year old printer. It was manufactured in February 2003
and I bought it sometime that year. It is four years old. The Z25 was a
popular low end printer.

Besides, my point is that regardless of whether a manufacturer of a printer
decides to write Vista drivers for it, Microsoft should write their new
operating system so that it can use the drivers of the old operating system.
Is that too much to ask? Why on earth can't such a 'so-vista-cated' program
use the drivers employed by its less sophisticated previous incarnation? Why
should we have to buy new printers?


"Cari (MS-MVP)" <NewsGroups@coribright.com> wrote in message
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> The Z25 is a 10 year old printer. Lexmark are writing drivers for
> printers issued in the last 5 years. They cannot support models for which
> their research shows there are only a couple of users, it's not
> economically viable.
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP)
> Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
> http://www.coribright.com/windows
>
> "Greg" <noway> wrote in message
> news:e00M2JbaHHA.4520@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Don't upgrade to Vista yet if you can avoid it. I couldn't find a state
>> of the art laptop without it though. MS are no longer selling XP
>> preloaded on machines. If you can find old stock in a store, buy it, or
>> if you are content with an older non-Core2Duo machine - most of those (if
>> there are any left) can still be got with XP on them.
>>
>> I can't print from my laptop to my Lexmark Z25 when set as the Vista
>> default printer and connected to the USB port on the laptop. It's totally
>> outrageous that Vista cannot simply use XP drivers. It should be
>> backwards compatible. Things should become more, not less functional with
>> a new OS! It would be so easy for Microsoft to write an XP driver
>> emulator but they won't.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>> "Angels3bmd" <Angels3bmd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2C868F03-3B63-4FEC-8D21-EE80E6500CAB@microsoft.com...
>>>I am buying a Laptop and would like to get Vista on it but I am worried
>>>that
>>> it will not be compatable with other computers without it or my printer
>>> (Lexmark 4300 all in one). Previously my scanner was not compatable
>>> with XP.
>>
>>
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