Feel Free To Share If This Worked For You Even If It's Other Printer.

"jonathan perreault" <jonperreault@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>i had a problem while back with my printer. My dad wanted to use a
>different driver called HP DeskJet 970C series, because of that, i wasn't
>able to print on xp or vista. For some reason, only way to print was to use
>the HP DeskJet 970Cxi driver so what i did was created two printers on the
>host computer. One is for him, he's using the C Series Driver, The other
>one is the one that he shares on his pc, which is the cxi Driver.
>
> Here are the steps to have two different driver for one printer: I went to
> his printer changed the driver to what i wanted it to be, then used the
> wizard to SEARCH the driver that my dad wanted to use, DO NOT let windows
> search it for you, it will ruin what you are trying to do, so i manually
> selected the driver, then the port usb that the printer was connected to,
> finished the wizard, and voila two printers going to one printer, one is
> shared, one not isn't. It Should Work On All OS But It Worked With Vista
> And XP, if you have that problem, if it doesn't work then get rid of the
> one wanting to use the driver that doesn't work.
>