Need help to install a network printer in Win7

Hey guys, come the jury for an hour last night looking for a solution.  I apologize if this is stated elsewhere and I missed it.  Tried to do a search on Google and found this site to be informative, I've decided to post here.

I have a home network that I share 2 printers through a Windows XP desktop computer.  All 5 PC print properly and run Windows XP.  Now, I've added a portable Win7 last night on the network.  I've tried a few things without result:

1. Add the print function.  Finds of networked printers.  Does not try to load the driver (only drivers XP loaded on the network, so it obviously does), but even after he said: check Windows Update, anyway.

2. went to the HP support site and looked for HP LaserJet 2100 (I know it's old, but still works fine) update of the driver.  D / the edition and ran universal driver.  Executable ran, still no go.

3 returned to PC WinXP who share network drivers.  Looked at the driver update section in the properties.  No Win7 not listed for other versions of Windows...

4. same thing happened for a Canon iP1800.

So, I'm stuck.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Scheu

Hi, try this on the laptop.

(1) add a printer
(2) add a local printer
(3) click on create a new port:
(4) select LOCAL port and enter the name of the network printer XP IE. \\xp\2100

Use the Win 7 driver when asked

Tags: HP Printers

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