Computer can't find Xerox Phaser 6180N printer after set to USB

[blahcomp222]

Phaser 6180N pretty high end color laser but a nightmare to configure.
I just finished a PC build. Everything went fine. Last thing I set up was the printer. I plugged it in and saved a picture from the intenet and opened it with MS paint and it printed. Then I went to print ebay labels and it gave me the errors it did last format. I have a fax and other printer on the network in another room but I don't use it. I Remove Device those two. Then removed the Phaser to reinstall thinking I knew what I did last time to fix it which I'm pretty sure I did again this time but it didn't work. Next I go to Add Printer in Windows 8.1 Devices and printers controll panel. It shows me the printer in the other room only so I select "the one I want isn't listed". Next, Instead of TCP/IP or bluetooth, I choose "local" and then it goes to a new window and instead of multiple printer ports in a drop down, I choose the one USB one, the virtual USB. I don't have a printer cord even if that would be easier. Then it auto selects me the Phaser to choose from many other printers I don't have. It says sucessfully installed. I click the test page it prompts, gives an error. I truobleshoot the printer it says other things in the que so I delete the que and uninstall the printer and redo everything. Same error after test print. Troubleshoot now says it's because a 2.0 printer is plugged into USB 3.0. I uninstall everything and plug into USB 2.0. Still nothing happens when I print in ebay. All I can get to print is something in MS paint and it only prints right after boot up when I reinstall.

 

[blahcomp222]

Fixed it.


Installed latest driver from xerox site, didn't print. Checked all settings which seemed to be set right. uninstalled printer, unplugged, turned PC off, Turned the elcetric breaker. set an antenna on the roof and waited for ligtning to hit it, turned pc back on, installed prtinter, checked for updates, sang to the printer, tapped it three times on the side, turned it off then turned it on then off then on then off. uninstalled then reinstalled then uninstalled then reinstalled then turned it off then on then off, called xerox and microsoft but only got a robot, turned it off turned it on. but it didn't print.



Then I tried this which worked: removed device, unpluggeed the usb and restarted. Plugged back in and when windows tried to auto install it, I hit cancel. I was going then try and install the xerox driver (which didn't work all the other times but I hoped maybe it would less likely conmflict with the generic Windows driver that always gets auto installed but I canceled this time). Next instead of even installing any driver or anything, the printer was shown in devices and printers so I printed a page and it's all working, printing color, labels, all types of media.