using shared deskjet 720c (win 98 se) on another computer ..

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Hello. Is there another computer that could be selected from the list that
comes with Windows 87 Second Edition? The Deskjet 720 c isn't on the list.
I tried to install the software on win98se machine but the install program
is looking for an LPT port but I want to install it as a network shared
printer. If I use "Add Printer" it prompts me to select from a list. The
closest HP Deskjet on this list is 690c, 692c, 693c, 694c, 850c, 855c, etc.
Can I substitute a lower number? How should I proceed?

Thanks!

Rich Hollenbeck

 

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Oops! I know there is no Windows 87! Doh! I meant to write 98. Sorry.
The rest of the post should be okay.

"Richard Hollenbeck" <richard.hollenbeck@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:makvd.4025$N%6.3041@trnddc05...
> Hello. Is there another computer that could be selected from the list
that
> comes with Windows 87 Second Edition? The Deskjet 720 c isn't on the
list.
> I tried to install the software on win98se machine but the install program
> is looking for an LPT port but I want to install it as a network shared
> printer. If I use "Add Printer" it prompts me to select from a list. The
> closest HP Deskjet on this list is 690c, 692c, 693c, 694c, 850c, 855c,
etc.
> Can I substitute a lower number? How should I proceed?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rich Hollenbeck
>
>
>

 

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>From: "Richard Hollenbeck" richard.hollenbeck@verizon.net
>Date: 12/13/2004 12:26 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <Vgkvd.4028$N%6.661@trnddc05>
>
>Oops! I know there is no Windows 87! Doh! I meant to write 98. Sorry.
>The rest of the post should be okay.
>
>"Richard Hollenbeck" <richard.hollenbeck@verizon.net> wrote in message
>news:makvd.4025$N%6.3041@trnddc05...
>> Hello. Is there another computer that could be selected from the list
>that
>> comes with Windows 87 Second Edition? The Deskjet 720 c isn't on the
>list.
>> I tried to install the software on win98se machine but the install program
>> is looking for an LPT port but I want to install it as a network shared
>> printer. If I use "Add Printer" it prompts me to select from a list. The
>> closest HP Deskjet on this list is 690c, 692c, 693c, 694c, 850c, 855c,
>etc.
>> Can I substitute a lower number? How should I proceed?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Rich Hollenbeck
>>
>>
>>
>
>

When you select "Add printer", you should get a screen with "Local Printer' and
"Network Printer" as the choices. To choose "Network Printer" the path to that
printer must be active. You will then get a window asking for the path (network
name) to the printer, or you can browse to find it. The "add printer" process
will then get the drivers it needs from that other computer, assuming, of
course, that the printer has been properly installed on the other computer.
Hope this helps.
Chris

 

[craigm]

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Rich,

According to the HP site, networked printing is not supported.

Here is the manual, see page 51 of the pdf.
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/bpd06723.pdf


The 720C is a 'Winprinter' and does not use PCL.

craigm


"Richard Hollenbeck" <richard.hollenbeck@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:makvd.4025$N%6.3041@trnddc05...
> Hello. Is there another computer that could be selected from the list
that
> comes with Windows 87 Second Edition? The Deskjet 720 c isn't on the
list.
> I tried to install the software on win98se machine but the install program
> is looking for an LPT port but I want to install it as a network shared
> printer. If I use "Add Printer" it prompts me to select from a list. The
> closest HP Deskjet on this list is 690c, 692c, 693c, 694c, 850c, 855c,
etc.
> Can I substitute a lower number? How should I proceed?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rich Hollenbeck
>
>
>

 

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CrisJ9876: Sorry I mailed this reply to you personally. Here's the same
reply posted to the group like I'm supposed to do. My reply is at the
bottom.

----- Original Message -----
From: "ChrisJ9876" <chrisj9876@aol.comnospam>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp.hardware
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: using shared deskjet 720c (win 98 se) on another computer
computer (win XP) but printer isn't in list of


> >From: "Richard Hollenbeck"
<SNIP>

>> . . .If I use "Add Printer" it prompts me to select from a list. The
> >> closest HP Deskjet on this list is 690c, 692c, 693c, 694c, 850c, 855c,
> >etc.
> >> Can I substitute a lower number? How should I proceed?

<SNIP>

> When you select "Add printer", you should get a screen with "Local
Printer' and
> "Network Printer" as the choices. To choose "Network Printer" the path to
that
> printer must be active. You will then get a window asking for the path
(network
> name) to the printer, or you can browse to find it. The "add printer"
process
> will then get the drivers it needs from that other computer, assuming, of
> course, that the printer has been properly installed on the other
computer.
> Hope this helps.
> Chris

Thank you for your reply. Here's where I'm at now:
Yes, this is what I did. I double-clicked "Add printer" then selected
"network printer." I then clicked "browse," and maneuvered until I found
the correct work group and computer, and then finally the correct printer
and I selected it and clicked "OK." then "Next >." It then took me to a
list of printers, and HP Deskjet 720c was not on that list. I don't know
why it needs to know what kind of printer it is since the other computer
already knows what kind of printer it is and it is installed and working and
online and has paper and it is found by browsing the network. I have the HP
software on my computer to install it as a local printer. It is not a local
printer, but the driver is there, so I ought to be able to click "Have Disk"
but that doesn't work either. If I click on Network, it asks for a drive
letter, path, and whether to reconnect at logon. So I selected an arbitrary
drive letter ( in this case I chose drive 'J:' ) typed in the path to the
shared printer ( \\WORKGROUP\printer1 ) on the other computer, and selected
"reconnect on logon." That still didn't work. I still am doing something
wrong. Thanks for your continued help.

Rich

 

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Correction:

> shared printer ( \\WORKGROUP\printer1 ) on the other computer. . .

should probably have been something like
"\\HOST-COMPUTER-NAME\hp-dj720c-printer" , or maybe I'm supposed to do
something like,
" \\WORK-GROUP\HOST-COMPUTER-NAME\hp-dj720c-printer" with the specifics
changed to match my own specifics.

Thoughts?

 

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Oooh, boy! I recall Windows 87. I think Micro$oft actually called it Windows
1.0.

Two possibilities:

1. Download and install the 720c driver from the HP web site.
2. Install a DeskJet 600 color driver instead. Should work, because DeskJets
all use a variation of HP's Printer Control Language (PCL), and the older PCL is
upward compatible with most of the newer printers, including the 720c.
3. While you're at it, install the DeskJet 600 MONOCHROME driver, and use it
when you are printing black&white-only documents to not waste the color inks.

.... Ben Myers

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:19:14 GMT, "Richard Hollenbeck"
<richard.hollenbeck@verizon.net> wrote:

>Hello. Is there another computer that could be selected from the list that
>comes with Windows 87 Second Edition? The Deskjet 720 c isn't on the list.
>I tried to install the software on win98se machine but the install program
>is looking for an LPT port but I want to install it as a network shared
>printer. If I use "Add Printer" it prompts me to select from a list. The
>closest HP Deskjet on this list is 690c, 692c, 693c, 694c, 850c, 855c, etc.
>Can I substitute a lower number? How should I proceed?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Rich Hollenbeck
>
>
>

 

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So HP says. "Networked printing is not supported." There have been many
postings on this newsgroup giving solutions for how to network the
non-networkable HP DeskJet printers... Ben Myers

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:30:26 -0600, "craigm" <none@domain.invalid> wrote:

>Rich,
>
>According to the HP site, networked printing is not supported.
>
>Here is the manual, see page 51 of the pdf.
>http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/bpd06723.pdf
>
>
>The 720C is a 'Winprinter' and does not use PCL.
>
>craigm
>
>
>"Richard Hollenbeck" <richard.hollenbeck@verizon.net> wrote in message
>news:makvd.4025$N%6.3041@trnddc05...
>> Hello. Is there another computer that could be selected from the list
>that
>> comes with Windows 87 Second Edition? The Deskjet 720 c isn't on the
>list.
>> I tried to install the software on win98se machine but the install program
>> is looking for an LPT port but I want to install it as a network shared
>> printer. If I use "Add Printer" it prompts me to select from a list. The
>> closest HP Deskjet on this list is 690c, 692c, 693c, 694c, 850c, 855c,
>etc.
>> Can I substitute a lower number? How should I proceed?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Rich Hollenbeck
>>
>>
>>
>
>

 

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Is this "top posting?" Should my replies go at the bottom?

Before I converted my main Windows machine into a Linux machine, I
successfully networked that computer to this printer. Now it doesn't work
because I haven't yet figured out how to network to that printer from Linux.
It was also on Windows 98 second edition. Anyway, it was a long time ago
that I set that up and now I forgot how I did it. Maybe I just got lucky.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the order the computers are connected
to the router. I wonder if the printer host machine needs to be the first
machine on the network; it was last time but now my Linux machine is number
one as a local Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (L.A.M.P.) server. I'd like to
eventually get that computer printing too, but that will be a little more
complicated.

Thanks to all while I'm still trying to connect the printer to my Windows 98
(not 87) machine. . .

Rich Hollenbeck

<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
news:41be3c98.37515173@nntp.charter.net...
> So HP says. "Networked printing is not supported." There have been many
> postings on this newsgroup giving solutions for how to network the
> non-networkable HP DeskJet printers... Ben Myers
>
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:30:26 -0600, "craigm" <none@domain.invalid> wrote:
>
> >Rich,
> >
> >According to the HP site, networked printing is not supported.
> >
> >Here is the manual, see page 51 of the pdf.
> >http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/bpd06723.pdf
> >
> >
> >The 720C is a 'Winprinter' and does not use PCL.
> >
> >craigm
> >
> >
> >"Richard Hollenbeck" <richard.hollenbeck@verizon.net> wrote in message
> >news:makvd.4025$N%6.3041@trnddc05...
> >> Hello. Is there another computer that could be selected from the list
> >that
> >> comes with Windows 87 Second Edition? The Deskjet 720 c isn't on the
> >list.
> >> I tried to install the software on win98se machine but the install
program
> >> is looking for an LPT port but I want to install it as a network shared
> >> printer. If I use "Add Printer" it prompts me to select from a list.
The
> >> closest HP Deskjet on this list is 690c, 692c, 693c, 694c, 850c, 855c,
> >etc.
> >> Can I substitute a lower number? How should I proceed?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Rich Hollenbeck
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>