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Just a little info
I was using Win 10 yesterday and wanted a hard copy of a webpage but
realized I had not Installed a driver for my Okidata c5150n Color Laser printer, So I downloaded the latest Windows 8 driver and installed it. Unfortunately Win 10 failed to detect the the printer and it did not show up in Devices and printers. On a hunch I checked and found the drivers and all files had installed OK, I then looked and found 2 .inf files in the bunch that had "install" in the right click options, both 32 and 64 bit, I hit install for both files and 1 returned an Installed OK dialog. I then checked the Devises and printers page in control panel and found the printer was now listed and had a default check mark. Sent a couple pages to the printer and everything worked fine which I was happy to see as I really love this Color Laser, Seven years and not an Iota of trouble , am on my 2nd set of 5000 page toner carts. Second good thing that happened was that when I set up my wireless adapter I set it up to use the 5G band instead of the 2.4G band which I was using on my Win 8.1 system, Well after doing tests on both I found that the 5G system was running over twice the speed of my 2.4G win 8.1 setup, so I promptly switched it over to 5G also. Hope this info helps someone with printer install problems without new Win 10 drivers. Best regards Rene |
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Rene Lamontagne wrote on 1/29/2015 3:31 PM:
I was using Win 10 yesterday and wanted a hard copy of a webpage but realized I had not Installed a driver for my Okidata c5150n Color Laser printer, So I downloaded the latest Windows 8 driver and installed it. Unfortunately Win 10 failed to detect the the printer and it did not show up in Devices and printers. On a hunch I checked and found the drivers and all files had installed OK, I then looked and found 2 .inf files in the bunch that had "install" in the right click options, both 32 and 64 bit, I hit install for both files and 1 returned an Installed OK dialog. I then checked the Devises and printers page in control panel and found the printer was now listed and had a default check mark. Sent a couple pages to the printer and everything worked fine which I was happy to see as I really love this Color Laser, Seven years and not an Iota of trouble , am on my 2nd set of 5000 page toner carts. Second good thing that happened was that when I set up my wireless adapter I set it up to use the 5G band instead of the 2.4G band which I was using on my Win 8.1 system, Well after doing tests on both I found that the 5G system was running over twice the speed of my 2.4G win 8.1 setup, so I promptly switched it over to 5G also. Hope this info helps someone with printer install problems without new Win 10 drivers. Best regards Rene Hope you sent some feedback to MS. |
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Rene Lamontagne wrote on 1/29/2015 3:31 PM:
I was using Win 10 yesterday and wanted a hard copy of a webpage but realized I had not Installed a driver for my Okidata c5150n Color Laser printer, So I downloaded the latest Windows 8 driver and installed it. Unfortunately Win 10 failed to detect the the printer and it did not show up in Devices and printers. On a hunch I checked and found the drivers and all files had installed OK, I then looked and found 2 .inf files in the bunch that had "install" in the right click options, both 32 and 64 bit, I hit install for both files and 1 returned an Installed OK dialog. I then checked the Devises and printers page in control panel and found the printer was now listed and had a default check mark. Sent a couple pages to the printer and everything worked fine which I was happy to see as I really love this Color Laser, Seven years and not an Iota of trouble , am on my 2nd set of 5000 page toner carts. Second good thing that happened was that when I set up my wireless adapter I set it up to use the 5G band instead of the 2.4G band which I was using on my Win 8.1 system, Well after doing tests on both I found that the 5G system was running over twice the speed of my 2.4G win 8.1 setup, so I promptly switched it over to 5G also. Hope this info helps someone with printer install problems without new Win 10 drivers. Best regards Rene Hope you sent some feedback to MS. |
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On 1/29/2015 6:59 PM, Big_Al wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote on 1/29/2015 3:31 PM: I was using Win 10 yesterday and wanted a hard copy of a webpage but realized I had not Installed a driver for my Okidata c5150n Color Laser printer, So I downloaded the latest Windows 8 driver and installed it. Unfortunately Win 10 failed to detect the the printer and it did not show up in Devices and printers. On a hunch I checked and found the drivers and all files had installed OK, I then looked and found 2 .inf files in the bunch that had "install" in the right click options, both 32 and 64 bit, I hit install for both files and 1 returned an Installed OK dialog. I then checked the Devises and printers page in control panel and found the printer was now listed and had a default check mark. Sent a couple pages to the printer and everything worked fine which I was happy to see as I really love this Color Laser, Seven years and not an Iota of trouble , am on my 2nd set of 5000 page toner carts. Second good thing that happened was that when I set up my wireless adapter I set it up to use the 5G band instead of the 2.4G band which I was using on my Win 8.1 system, Well after doing tests on both I found that the 5G system was running over twice the speed of my 2.4G win 8.1 setup, so I promptly switched it over to 5G also. Hope this info helps someone with printer install problems without new Win 10 drivers. Best regards Rene Hope you sent some feedback to MS. Yes, But I think it will be up to Okidata to update their drivers, but its a little too early to expect them to do so yet. Best Regards, Rene |
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On 1/29/2015 6:59 PM, Big_Al wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote on 1/29/2015 3:31 PM: I was using Win 10 yesterday and wanted a hard copy of a webpage but realized I had not Installed a driver for my Okidata c5150n Color Laser printer, So I downloaded the latest Windows 8 driver and installed it. Unfortunately Win 10 failed to detect the the printer and it did not show up in Devices and printers. On a hunch I checked and found the drivers and all files had installed OK, I then looked and found 2 .inf files in the bunch that had "install" in the right click options, both 32 and 64 bit, I hit install for both files and 1 returned an Installed OK dialog. I then checked the Devises and printers page in control panel and found the printer was now listed and had a default check mark. Sent a couple pages to the printer and everything worked fine which I was happy to see as I really love this Color Laser, Seven years and not an Iota of trouble , am on my 2nd set of 5000 page toner carts. Second good thing that happened was that when I set up my wireless adapter I set it up to use the 5G band instead of the 2.4G band which I was using on my Win 8.1 system, Well after doing tests on both I found that the 5G system was running over twice the speed of my 2.4G win 8.1 setup, so I promptly switched it over to 5G also. Hope this info helps someone with printer install problems without new Win 10 drivers. Best regards Rene Hope you sent some feedback to MS. Yes, But I think it will be up to Okidata to update their drivers, but its a little too early to expect them to do so yet. Best Regards, Rene |
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