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Originally Posted by shalym
Yeah...sounds like you're doing it wrong. Why in the world would you re-download the driver? I've done exactly what you're talking about many times, and if anything needed to be done besides just changing the properties of the port, it would be just creating a new instance of the device using the same downloaded driver.
This is what drives me crazy with these threads--people who don't know how to use Windows complaining about how horrible it is, while implying that they are somehow better than the people who don't know how to use Linux.
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I tried setting up several "instances" of the printer (as a matter of fact it's using one of the new "instances" now) -- but it still didn't work until I reloaded the driver. What drives me nuts about Windows (and Windows supporters) is that -- every time something goes wrong with the OS -- it's automatically the user's fault. It's not like I didn't Google for a fix before re-installing the printer. I really have better things to do with my life than support Windows (which I hate), so I try to figure out how to get it done as quickly as possible. And, really, just because you haven't had this problem, doesn't mean I haven't had the problem. Driver problems are not unknown in Windows.
And BTW -- to you and everyone else I'm responding to -- I'm not writing any of this to convince anyone to quit using Windows ... I'm just letting folks know one of the main reasons (there are several others) why I quit using Windows and went to Linux. If you're happy with Windows I'm happy for you.