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nintendo_nerd · Lurker Joined: 11 May 2009 Posts: 175 Location: USA

I know I've had this problem in the past (with all OSes I've had), you know, Windows XP, Windows 7 RC1 and now Windows 7 Home Premium. So, Windows 7 comes with a plethora of drivers for pretty much every kind of device out there including printers, biometric devices and even USB toasters. I currently have an Epson Stylus C120 printer than worked perfectly fine on RC1 which was set up to be shared with another computer. One PC has Windows 7 Retail (which has the printer connected) whereas other PC has Windows XP (with shared printing). So. my brother, who's infinitely more computer savvy than me, was at first boggled at the printer's lack or cooperation, but after a few minutes, he managed to get the shared printing working fine. Here's the problem, both PCs list the printer as "Epson C5/generic printer" or something to that effect (can't remember off the top of my head). So, I proceed to print out a schedule for my next term in school. While printing, Windows recommended that I "update the printer with an official driver from epson.com", which I did right away. Well, the driver was "properly" installed and finally recognized it with the correct name. The problem now is that the printer is completely unusable, esp. since it's now called "printer name (copy 1)". How a printer works better in the RC1 versus retail is beyond me. The troubleshooting FAQ on their site is a bunch of BS, so, if uninstalling the device, rebooting and even updating the drivers to the very latest doesn't make the printer work at all, what else is there to do?
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franpa · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:55 am Post subject:

This is why you do a clean install of Windows instead of an upgrade...
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sweener2001 · Seen it all Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2208 Location: WA

it's why you download drivers from the manufacturer whenever possible.
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funkyass · "God" Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 1553

you can choose the printer you print to.

or you can delete the printer and re-add it.
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SquareHead · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:36 am Post subject:

Have you tried finding the printer in the device manager, and clicking update driver. IIRC there was an option after that to go online and use windows update to find the latest driver.

It could be worse. My network printer (using a trendnet printserver) was obsoleted by the move from Vista to 7. When I went online to look for drivers all I got was a page telling me to take it in using their trade-in program.

nintendo_nerd · Lurker Joined: 11 May 2009 Posts: 175 Location: USA

odditude · Official tech support dood Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 1090

d00d, srsly.

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=89900&infoType=Overview

took all of two seconds by going to their main site, picking north america, picking drivers & support, picking printers->view all, and then "epson stylus c120."

also,

Deathlike2 · ZSNES Developer Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 6882

Here's a good hint: Windows Update is the LAST place where you WANT to update your drivers from.
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grinvader · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:37 pm Post subject: