the printer completes the install and it is set for the default printer...but
nothing happens when I try to print....

i have problem with HP Deskjet 450 under Vista Home Premium. Printer is
installed by Vista, everything looks ok, but i can't print. When i want to
print Test page, only row of 2-20 smilies is coming out in best case and
print job shows error . When i ask HP, they say Microsoft is ...

Now I'm 90% sure that this is a no go, but I'd like to rack the brains
of you Vistax64.com people before I totally give up.
The print server - Linksys PSUS4.
The operating system - Vista 64.

A customer brought their Lenovo laptop w/VHP installed because her HPOJ 7110
printer had disappeared. Thinking that she needed to do so, she clicked the
Add Printer button and got "Windows can't open Add Printer. The local print
spooler service is not running."

My printer had previously been installed onto my laptop and had worked
before. I unplugged my printer from my computer for a few days and now it
does not seem to work anymore. I can scan and everything else on my printer
except print a document from my laptop. What should I do?

After I upgraded my notebook to Vista from XP, I cannot add printers to the
system. Before install, all printers where listed, but after install,
nothing. Not even the document printer from MS Office. When I try to add my
network printer, I get a "Local Print Spooler not started" ...

I have tried everything possible to get my HP PSC 500 to work with Vista, I
had no problems with XP. The driver is there, but it presents an error when I
go to print. I have contacted HP and they tell me because my machine, which
is in perfect working condition, is 5 yrs old it ...

I try to add a printer to my computer. The printer is connected via USB to
another computer. I find the printer but when I try to add it, I get an error
message. Translated from swedish: The local service for the print buffer
isn't running. Restart buffer or computer.

I have an XP Pro PC on my home network and am trying to connect to a Lexmark
X215 printer that is shared off of the XP Pro machine.  I am connecting with
a new Vista Home Premium Dell XPS M1530 laptop.  The rest of the network is
working fine - shared files, folders, access to ...

Hello, I bought a Lexmark X2480 and I am unable to install it on my system.
I do not have the driver cd as I bought it as a return-product, and I
downloaded the newest driver from Lexmark.com, but I am unable to install it
on Vista Ultimate. I use the downloaded driver program, ...

I have tried posting this in microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general without
success. Someone there suggested I try here, so here I am!
I have Vista Ultimate x64 as my primary computer networked to a Windows XP
computer. The Vista computer is always on and the XP computer is only ...

When I try to use the 2-sided printing option, the second side comes out
upside-down.  Is there a patch available to correct this?  I haven't been
able to get anything from HP.

Prints fine but how do I get the scanner to work

Since yesterday windows update is reporting that there's a new updated
available for my printer: HP PSC 2110:
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/1614/02152008110142fv3.png
when i go to see the details I see:

would like to scan documents as editable text documents like I could with
Picture it. Does Photo Gallery not do this?