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HP has a Windows tool for setting up an HP printer on a network:<br>
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href="http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodNameId=19656&prodTypeId=13037&prodSeriesId=27908&taskId=135">HP
Install Network Printer Wizard</a><br>
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I've always found it easier to use this than to navigate Microsoft's
dialog boxes. Sometimes you cannot do it the Microsoft way at all.<br>
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- Ray<br>
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On 7/9/2011 6:07 PM, Spencer Graves wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4E18FB57.9040400@prodsyse.com" type="cite">Good
news and bad news:
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GOOD: The official Santa Clara Green Party Printer is now in
Warner's "garage". It accepts power, and the paper transport
seems to work.
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BAD:
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1. So far, I've only been able to produce pages that are
essentially all black. Cameron suggested I print 20 pages and see
if the problem clears up. I printed roughly a dozen, and a few
shades of gray seemed to be getting a little lighter. Then the
printer thought there was a paper jam. I got it printing black
pages again but decided not to mess with it further.
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2. Windows 7 on my notebook seemed not to like it. When I
told it to search for a network printer, it found an HP Color
Laserjet 8550. When I told it I wanted that, it then wanted to
install a driver for it, and gave me a list of options first for
manufacturer. When I selected HP, it then gave me a further list
of options, which seemed NOT to include a Color Laserjet 8550.
Cameron said that it's a postscript printers, and selecting any
Apple postscript option would work. However, tfosorciM refused to
provide "Apple" and an acceptable manufacturer for a printer using
their operating system. (What do you think of them apples?)
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CONCLUSION:
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1. If someone else has a need for it and time to mess with
it, it's possible that it might clear up after printing another
dozen or two test pages. We laid it on its side to transport it,
and it could easily have gotten toner in inappropriate places. If
it doesn't then I think it needs to be recycled.
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2. If someone can get the printer to work on self test, you
still need a computer configured to print to it.
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Hope this helps.
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Spencer
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