I just spent the better part of four hours trying to get our Lexmark 5150 all-in-one printer to connect to the new Windows 7 PC. Nada. Looked at lots of sites that Goggle belched forth when given Windows 7, printer, driver, Lexmark. Found lots of people saying Thees no work, senor. Lots of comments about you got to fake it out, got to use the Vista driver, Vista doesn't talk to network printers (though the since-deceased Vista PC did), you got to install it as a LOCAL printer, even though it isn't. One guy even used the word "poodlefake".
Along the way, I accidentally clicked 'connect to the Laserjet', which is our older HP Laserjet 5, and it connected immediately, printing a test page with no problems whatsoever.
But the Lexmark?
Windows is unable to connect to the printer.
Error code 0X000000D
Error code 0X000000D
That D is a hex 13, and, at least on mainframes, a hex 13 is SVC 13, which is a call to ABEND. Dead Meat. Roadkill. Or as one of the three different people I spoke to on Lexmark chat support said, you can't connect PCs of two different operating systems to the same printer.
WHAT?????
2 comments:
hee hee,, geeks is so cute....
Merry Christmas Bill. You made a GREAT Santa!
Why, thank you! (I wondered who that kid was, asking for the 'center ice seats'....)
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