I have XP SP2 and am trying to install an old laser printer (Minolta pagepro QMS 1250E to be precise).
Now I have an installation disk but this is pre XP and seems to be for the 1250W model. Anyway after installation the 1250W appears in printer and faxes. However it just prints semiblank pages when it manages to communicate with a few funny symbols at the top of the page.
Now I did manage to get this printer to work with my old XP computer - I think I put in a dummy printer description file somewhere and it worked but I cant remember what exactly I did.
So I downloaded what is said to be the driver for the1250E (only 63 kb) from drivers.com. (the official minolta ftp site was down when I tried) It is a self extracting file with 4 files
The first file looks promising and is called oemsetup.inf . When clicked note pad comes up witha long text file starting
[Version]
Signature="Windows NT"
Provider=%M1%
ClassGUID={4D36E979-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
CatalogFile=sp601ps.cat
DriverVer=10/20/2001, 5.03.918.0
Class=Printer
[ClassInstall32.NT]
AddReg=printer_class_addreg etct etc
the other three files are labelled sp601ps2k.NTF, sp601ps2k.ppd, and sp601ps.cat
what do I do now?