Is there a service that will write a printer driver?
Oct 29, 2019 12:25:03 #
nadelewitz
Loc: Ithaca NY
TriX wrote:
Saw that after I replied - see my edited comment above. I keep an XP machine just to support my $1500 slide scanner, but I only leave it attached to my network when scanning (for security reasons), and I keep updated virus and bot detection running when it’s up.
You can't connect the scanner directly to the XP machine, avoiding ever having to use your network for it?
Oct 29, 2019 12:55:12 #
Gilkar wrote:
Maybe this has been answered on the forum but I've... (show quote)
I have had this same problem with a scanner. I solved the problem by installing and running a Virtual Machine under Windows 10. When you run a Virtual Machine you can install and run Windows XP natively. Then you can install the printer driver for your dye sub printer.
Oct 29, 2019 12:59:04 #
ggab
Loc: ?
rcdovala wrote:
I have had this same problem with a scanner. I solved the problem by installing and running a Virtual Machine under Windows 10. When you run a Virtual Machine you can install and run Windows XP natively. Then you can install the printer driver for your dye sub printer.
In order to run XP in Windows 10 as a VM, he has to:
1- have the ability to move his laptop to a VM
2- have a copy of XP and product key and install it fresh.
Oct 29, 2019 13:22:53 #
nadelewitz wrote:
You can't connect the scanner directly to the XP machine, avoiding ever having to use your network for it?
Yes, but if the OP has documents or images on other machines that he wants to print, he'd need to move them over the network to the XP print server (unless he wants to put them on a media and physically move them)
Oct 29, 2019 21:59:13 #
nadelewitz
Loc: Ithaca NY
TriX wrote:
Yes, but if the OP has documents or images on other machines that he wants to print, he'd need to move them over the network to the XP print server (unless he wants to put them on a media and physically move them)
Yeah, okay. Move them via flash drive, external hard drive, optical disc, whatever. You do what you have to do.
Oct 29, 2019 22:30:20 #
nadelewitz wrote:
Yeah, okay. Move them via flash drive, external hard drive, optical disc, whatever. You do what you have to do.
Well yea, you could, but would you really want to burn a disk or a thumb drive every time you wanted to print a document? I’d put it on a subnet and firewall/permission it so you could only write to that node.
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