Printer driver neededfor HP Photosmart printer...help

I have a HP photosmart 1218 and have just brought a new rig which has a
dual boot config with Vista64 and Xp Pro64.

I have managed to get the printer to install in XP but trying the same
method in Vista doesn't work.. can anyone help?

I installed it in XP Pro64 by downloading the XP64 bit driver for a
deskjet 970cse and then simply installing it

HP themselves suggested just setting the printer up manually in Vista
as a deskjet 970cse.. this gave me the idea for the above trick. But
when i tried this the test page came out garbled where as in XP the
test page printed fine.

I know the printer is getting old but it works perfectly well and i'm
loathed to bin it . So is there anyone out there who can point me in the
direction of any other drivers i could use other than the official xp 32
bit software driver on the HP website which doesn't work.

Thanx in advance.
Steve.


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