Posted: 3/11/2007 4:48:48 PM EDT
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Sorry if this has already been asked before but I got a question about Vista. Why can't I install my printer on Vista? We bought our son a new HP computer with Vista installed. I want to install a LexMark Z715 printer on my sons computer but Vista won't allow it to operate. The printer is maybe 2 or 3 years old but rarely used so it's like new. Is there a patch or upgrade to Vista? |
Pretty much all the older hardware that was compatible with Windows XP will require new drivers for Vista, given that they exist. Sorry, but Vista sucks. It's way too early to get it. Microsoft has been horrible with legacy driver support since Windows 95. |
| there is a possibility that a vista driver will come along, just search around every now and then, i've had good luck with www.driverguide.com to find wierd drivers. try calling Lexmark and ask about a vista driver and encourage them to write one if they haven't yet. |
Microsoft my ass... It ain’t Microsoft’s job to keep drivers current for other manufactures. Funny Lexmark and HP cannot update their drivers 4 month after Vista RTM but both my Canon 3 and 4 year old printers and Canon scanner had Vista drivers available when Vista went RTM in November. Learn your lesson… don’t buy Lexmark or HP printers, scanners or anything else both companies have histories of not supporting older printers. HP has more or less said they will not update drivers on much of its hardware, some of it only a couple years old that you need to buy new from them… well they can go to hell. I learned this lesson when XP was released and I was stuck with useless HP junk. |
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Thanks for the information. I guess I never thought about it that way, but it does make me wonder why the operating system can't support older products or why they can't write that into the program? I just got sent an update from HP today for my HP Officejet 6210 All-in-One to support Vista. Now if only Lexmark can get their act together.... |
MS does support a lot of it built in you will find a lot of drivers in XP and Vista for older hardware including printers that the manufacture never provided updated drivers for. I have a Brother laser printer that Brother has not provided a Vista Driver for but MS did. MS tends to provide drivers for some of the most common models but cannot for everything. Do have any idea of the staggering number of separate hardware devices that have been sold in the last 7 years alone, it is not reasonable to expect MS to be able to provide all those drives when the manufacture will not. After all MS has provided something well above 20,000 drivers for Vista either on the install disc or at Windows Update, they cannot do them all. |