Can't find Win 7 Driver for old printer - Dulwich Estate
I have an elderly Brother DCP-110C printer which I only sometimes use and it's been fine with a computer running Windows XP. My newish netbook uses Win 7 Starter and it doesn't recognise the printer. It seems a driver is needed.
Microsoft don't do one and neither it seems do Brother.
I may have missed something of course, but try as I might I just can't get it to work.
Any ideas, please ?
Regulars will note that this is Episode II of my rant about non-compatibility with so called wonderful Win 7.
Can't find Win 7 Driver for old printer - Dulwich Estate
Thanks, Sliding Pillar and Zero. Those pages looks familiar. I got to the point in the installation procedure where my printer model could not be found and it said:
Select Add a printer using a TCP/IP address or hostname and click Next.
I got stuck at this point not knowing what to do.
Last edited by: Dulwich Estate on Tue 17 Jul 12 at 22:39
Follow instructions at bottom of that apge:
"1 During he initial installation of Windows 7, not all available printer drivers are listed. Clicking the Windows Update button will cause the operating system to query Microsoft's servers and download the remaining available drivers. Click here to learn how to update the printer list using Windows Update."
>> Zero, by USB cable.
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>> John H - I refer the honourable member to the reply I gave earlier.
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With a USB cable, you should NOT be going down the network install route.
"If you are connecting your Brother machine via USB connection:
The built-in drivers you can install via USB connection are printer driver and scanner driver.
The drivers are installed automatically by connecting your Brother machine to the PC running Windows® 7 with a USB cable."