
Open the Printers folder and right-click on the HP DeskJet 720C printer on the server and go to Properties. When complete, click OK to close the Printer dialog box, and then go over to the server via RDP or directly on a console. If you do not have administrative access to the printer and/or the server, find someone who does. Click the 圆4 check box, and the system should start to install the 圆4 drivers from Vista over the wire to the server. The x86 box is checked, but neither of the others. At this point, my view shows three options: Itanium, 圆4, and x86. Remove the checkmark next to 'Render Print Jobs on Client Computers' and then click the 'Additional Drivers' button. Once the printer is installed on Vista, right-click on it and go to Properties.

\\serverName\HP DeskJet 720C) *Mine found it as I started typing HP* Allow the install to proceed as usual. Next, on your Vista 圆4 desktop, Add a printer > Network printer > Click to stop the search and click 'The Printer that I want is not listed' Click on the 'Select a shared printer by name' radio button and enter the server and printer name (i.e. This is the only revision of the driver that I can get to work. My setup is as follows: Windows Vista Ultimate 圆4 (desktop) Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86 (server) HP DeskJet 712C (using 720C driver on server) First, on the server, setup the printer to use the 720C driver. I have another computer on the network with 32-bit Vista and printing works fine using the 720C driver included in the OS. If I set to print directly to the printer without using the spooler, Explorer would crash whenever I try to print. What's interesting is that the data type is set to RAW, yet in the log above it shows EMF. Win32 error code returned by the print processor: 87. Total number of pages in the document: 1.


Try to print the document again, or restart the print spooler.ĭata type: NT EMF 1.008. The document Test Page, owned by USERNAME, failed to print on printer HP DeskJet 720C. When I tried to print anything, including the Test Page, the printer would roll in the paper and then stop dead, with the status LED flashing. to 720C hardware-wise) on the network that I can't print to using Vista 圆4.
