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| 513153 | 2007-01-06 03:06:00 | I just spent the rest of the morning fixing a laptop for a friend - malware, etc.etc. He asked me to connect his fav printer too and although it installed, wouldn't initialise. Eventually I saw that the printer (very old) only had Win3.x and Win95 driver. Googled for the printer driver for XP - no luck - lots of the same quesries but that's about it, except for a few Linux drivers. Any of you guys do better than me? Canon Multipass L90 sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 513154 | 2007-01-06 03:28:00 | struck this a few times with people upgrading from 9x......throw it out and buy a new one or dual boot win95. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 513155 | 2007-01-06 05:06:00 | Now tweak'e you must remember you're talking to an older stupid arseh*le - could you please refer me to a page where I can see how to dual boot coz I also told him to throw it out If one dual boot - would you be able to transfer stuff between the "boots" or print stuff out of XP? sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 513156 | 2007-01-06 05:08:00 | Its must be too old, as it says on the Canon site (www.canon.co.nz) No u can't use it on XP, 2000, or NT, Only 3.11, 95 or 98. As it says here (www.canon.co.nz) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 513157 | 2007-01-06 05:15:00 | Yeah Speedy - I saw those Canon pages too. Still trying to see if some geek rewrote a driver coz there is a lot of interest in it on Google. sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 513158 | 2007-01-06 05:17:00 | Well I wouldn't bother if some geek decides to rewrite the drivers. You don't know whats in them. Forget it, and chuck it in the bin, and get him to buy a modern one. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 513159 | 2007-01-06 06:00:00 | dual boot is not something i would recommend for beginner. actually the other way would be to get an old pc with 9x on it. set them up on a network and print via the network. might be easier than risking dual booting problems with the main pc. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 513160 | 2007-01-06 10:55:00 | Yup tweak'e - great minds think alike - I've been pulling out my networking stuff before you posted, thought about the same thing. sarel |
sarel (2490) | ||
| 513161 | 2007-01-06 11:45:00 | If your local newspaper has an under $50 column, put an ad in there saying you want a win95 computer. someone will probably have one that they will give away. First though, make sure you can buy a network card with win95 drivers. |
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