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From: froggygremblin on 21 Dec 2009 16:28
Have a Windows XP home network with 3 PCs - 2 rin XP one rund Vista. One PC
shares an HP 6100 Inkjet, and an HP820 Inkjet. I added a Windows 7 PC to the
Network. I 'connected' to the shared printers on the XP machine. Whe I send
a print job to either printer I can open the print que for both printers from
the Windows 7 machine and see the job but it never prints. The Queue empties
but no document comes out. I was able to print a test page to the HP 6100
once but never to the 820. Also after the one succesful test page Windows 7
says it can't start the print queue. All of the other PCs can print with no
problem. Any idea why the Win 7 machine fails? Thanks for any help
From: Lem on 21 Dec 2009 17:04
froggygremblin wrote:
> Have a Windows XP home network with 3 PCs - 2 rin XP one rund Vista. One PC
> shares an HP 6100 Inkjet, and an HP820 Inkjet. I added a Windows 7 PC to the
> Network. I 'connected' to the shared printers on the XP machine. Whe I send
> a print job to either printer I can open the print que for both printers from
> the Windows 7 machine and see the job but it never prints. The Queue empties
> but no document comes out. I was able to print a test page to the HP 6100
> once but never to the 820. Also after the one succesful test page Windows 7
> says it can't start the print queue. All of the other PCs can print with no
> problem. Any idea why the Win 7 machine fails? Thanks for any help

For Win 7 questions, see
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/w7itpro

--
Lem

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From: Jack [MVP-Networking] on 21 Dec 2009 17:42
Hi
Did you install the printer drivers on the Win 7 computer via add a Network
printer?
Since you are using Win & and Win XP Win 7 should not be configured as
Homegroup but as Work Network given it the same Network name as the WinXP.
Jack (MS, MVP-Networking).

"froggygremblin" <froggygremblin(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CD747787-DBA5-47E0-9538-ADD1E81E86A8(a)microsoft.com...
> Have a Windows XP home network with 3 PCs - 2 rin XP one rund Vista. One
> PC
> shares an HP 6100 Inkjet, and an HP820 Inkjet. I added a Windows 7 PC to
> the
> Network. I 'connected' to the shared printers on the XP machine. Whe I
> send
> a print job to either printer I can open the print que for both printers
> from
> the Windows 7 machine and see the job but it never prints. The Queue
> empties
> but no document comes out. I was able to print a test page to the HP 6100
> once but never to the 820. Also after the one succesful test page Windows
> 7
> says it can't start the print queue. All of the other PCs can print with
> no
> problem. Any idea why the Win 7 machine fails? Thanks for any help

From: Stan Hilliard on 31 Dec 2009 00:09
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:04:14 -0500, Lem <lemp40(a)unknownhost> wrote:

>froggygremblin wrote:
>> Have a Windows XP home network with 3 PCs - 2 rin XP one rund Vista. One PC
>> shares an HP 6100 Inkjet, and an HP820 Inkjet. I added a Windows 7 PC to the
>> Network. I 'connected' to the shared printers on the XP machine. Whe I send
>> a print job to either printer I can open the print que for both printers from
>> the Windows 7 machine and see the job but it never prints. The Queue empties
>> but no document comes out. I was able to print a test page to the HP 6100
>> once but never to the 820. Also after the one succesful test page Windows 7
>> says it can't start the print queue. All of the other PCs can print with no
>> problem. Any idea why the Win 7 machine fails? Thanks for any help
>
>For Win 7 questions, see
>http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories
>http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/w7itpro
>
>Lem

My problem was somewhat similar to yours. I am able to print from win7
now after doing the following:

1) Installed new win7 printer driver on the win7 PC.

2) [devices and printers]

3) [Add a printer]

4) [add a bluetooth or wireless printer]

5) The selected printer failed to install, so I selected "The printer
that I want isn't listed" (even though it is listed)

6) pick option "select a shared printer by name"
This syntax failed: \\computername\printername
This syntax worked:
http//computername/printers/printername/.printer

Can someone please explain why one syntax would work but not the
other?

Stan Hilliard
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