Re: Printer drivers on a networked computer

[Bernie Epstein <bepstein@comcast.net>]

Second try. Surely some guru out there using Windows XP can point me in the
right direction with this. A couple of other people have remarked about the
persistent default XP drivers (they come back automatically after you
uninstall them if you reboot).

TIA, Bernie.

Bernie Epstein wrote:

> I just completed setting up my new computer, a 2.2 gig Pentium 4 running
> under Windows XP Professional. It is networked to my old computer via an
> ethernet router. Everything seems to work fine in terms of "seeing" each
> drive's contents and printers from the other. My printers, an Epson
> Stylus Photo EX and Epson 3000, are connected to the parallel port of
> the old computer. I can print to either one from the new computer, but
> the Printer dialogs I see for the EX are the Windows default version
> which are useless since I can't apply a custom printer profile. I
> installed the latest version of both drivers that I could find on the
> new computer, so I now see two "phantom" printers as well as the "real"
> ones (the ones connected to my old computer) in my XP Printers and Faxes
> window. What do I have to do to get the Epson driver to show up when I
> send a document to print instead of the Windows default driver?
> Secondly, should I uninstall the "phantom" printers? I don't anticipate
> connecting them to the new computer anytime soon because of space
> constraints.
>
> Bernie
>
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