2 computers to 1 printer how?????

[chrisf6969]

Normally you can jump in and supply your own drivers for the printer at one of the steps. I had to do it for the computers on my home network. (Win98 & WinXP)

Here at work we have brother & HP laser jets shared no problem, cross platform (Win98 & WinXP, etc)

[bigal13]

hi


cheers guys

got it sorted now it was a problem with different operating systems so different drivers

only think is i will have to do it all over again when i get a newer printer but at least this time i will have a idea what i have to do

[G4Z]

hehe, I read this thread and I was gonna say its the drivers, on our nertwork at work we ahve mostly HP printers and we have some as network printers and some connected to PC`s and shared from there. HP do deffo share, Its a doddle.

[directhex]

my HP Deskjet 520 shared fine, my dad's 720 explicitly stated in the manual that it could not be shared - and they were right.

My canon was a doddle to share, my housemate's epson shared itself automatically & appeared on my pc's printer list automatically.

[Butuz]

So thats one printer that you couldnt get to work out of hundreds of different HP models , and you brand the whole of HP's printer line as unusable on a network?

Tut tut

Butuz