Installing network printers on Windows 7?

Factual Questions
1

I have an Epson Aculaser C1100 connected via USB on a Vista 32bit machine and I want to use it from the network on a Windows 7 64bit.

I can “see” the printer from the Win 7 machine, but when I try to install it it searches Windows Update for a driver for a few minutes. It cannot find a driver so it prompts me to select a driver manually from the CD. Problem is that there’s no windows 7 driver on the CD and those for other windows versions do not work.

There are no 7 drivers on the Epson support site, only a stupid network utility that does nothing. What the heck am I supposed to do now? :mad:

2

There is no Vista or Windows 7 x64 driver for it. On the plus side, the price of new printers has come down a lot.

3

I connected the printer directly on the win7 machine and it found drivers. Any idea how to find and use these drivers when connecting the printer through the network?

4

Now that you’ve set it up locally, there’s two ways you can do it. Go put the printer back on the Vista PC. Install the printer as a network printer, but give it some other generic driver to use. Then go and edit the printer to use the correct driver (should show up as a drop down) and you’re done.

Alternately, once you’ve installed the network printer with the generic driver, you can go edit the USB printer, and tell it to use the port from the network printer instead of the local USB port.