Simviation Forum - After years of hand-me-downs...

Jan 5^th, 2013 at 7:16am

Fozzer Offline
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..of various bits of hardware...

..you know the sort of thing...
...."I've got a new mega-snazzy-amazing bit of XYZ, and you can have my old version for nothing!"...!

Well my old, not-so-mega-snazzy-amazing piece of hardware; H-P Desk-jet 670C Printer, firmly refused to function after installing Windows 7...
..reason...no drivers for Win 7!

..and silly old me thinking it might have been as simple as; Microsoft "Plug-n-Play"... Roll Eyes

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NAH!..that doesn't work!.. Angry

...!

So...

I got my trusty Motor-bike out and rushed ot to Currys/PC World to select a brand-spanking-new, Kodak ESP 1,2, all-in-one-printer for the bargain price of £50.... Smiley

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Strapped it on to the pillion seat of my trusty Steed (Motor-bike), and trundled off (very) carefully through the intervening traffic back home to unpack the mountain of packing to reveal my latest pride an joy...
...a brand-new, mega-snazzy-amazing Printer, which can Print Copy, Scan, ...and even make me cups of tea!... Cheesy

...!

The wonders of modern technology...and Tea-making!

Feast your eyes on this, and weep!...>>>

http://shop.kodak.co.uk/store/ekconseu/en_GB/pd/ThemeID.3925900/ESP_1.2_All-in-O...

Paul... Grin

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Reply #1 - Jan 5^th, 2013 at 9:08am

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Take care of your new printer. Wink

Its not only windows, that can make trouble Grin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g8yB7D7NNA

"Just try to be YOU".
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Reply #2 - Jan 5^th, 2013 at 9:40am

Fozzer Offline
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Bass wrote on Jan 5^th, 2013 at 9:08am:

Take care of your new printer. Wink

Its not only windows, that can make trouble Grin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g8yB7D7NNA

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I can mostly cope with Windows... Wink

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...but not Cats!.... Shocked

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Paul... Grin

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Dell Dimension 5000 BTX Tower. Win7 Home Edition, 32 Bit. Intel Pentium 4, dual 2.8 GHz. 2.5GB RAM, nVidia GF 9500GT 1GB. SATA 500GB + 80GB. Philips 17" LCD Monitor. Micronet ADSL Modem only. Saitek Cyborg Evo Force. FS 2004 + FSX. Briggs and Stratton Petrol Lawn Mower...Motor Bikes. Gas Cooker... and lots of musical instruments!.... ...!
Yamaha MO6,MM6,DX7,DX11,DX21,DX100,MK100,EMT10,PSR400,PSS780,Roland GW-8L v2,TR505,Casio MT-205,Korg CX3v2 dual manual,+ Leslie 760,M-Audio Prokeys88,KeyRig,Cubase,Keyfax4,Guitars,Orchestral,Baroque,Renaissance,Medieval Instruments.

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Reply #3 - Jan 6^th, 2013 at 9:30am

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A very nice pressie to yourself there Fozzer. I was given a mega-expensive printer/scanner a few weeks ago from a mate who said it wasn't working. Took me 25 minutes to strip it, re-solder the dry joint and re-connect the cable. Hey presto Grin

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Reply #4 - Jan 6^th, 2013 at 11:01am

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ozzy72 wrote on Jan 6^th, 2013 at 9:30am:

A very nice pressie to yourself there Fozzer. I was given a mega-expensive printer/scanner a few weeks ago from a mate who said it wasn't working. Took me 25 minutes to strip it, re-solder the dry joint and re-connect the cable. Hey presto Grin

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I occasionally open my trusty purse, release the spiders and butterflies out, and treat myself to various prezzies every now and again!... Kiss

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My hand-me-down-printer from one of my lads; "This is for you, Dad X", was an old HP 670C Inkjet Printer, which although it was had inkjet mechanism, sounded more like a dot-matrix printer, as it scanned, line-line-line, and vibrated itself slowly off the table!
I only use printers for printing instruction manuals, (Chord Charts*), etc, with black ink, so it did the job perfectly in Windows XP, ......until I installed Win 7, then my problems started... Shocked

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...no Windows 7 HP Drivers for my old HP printer, so it wasn't recognised in Win 7, and wouldn't work....only print pages of gobbaldy-gook....

...so much for Windows Plug 'n Play!... Angry

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*To save myself buying a Chord Chart Book from the music shop for my new Ukulele, I bought my new "WINDOWS 7" Printer, and printed what I wanted off the Internet!

£50 For a new printer from Curry's/PC World..versus..£3:25 for a new Ukulele Chord Chart Book from the music shop... Roll Eyes

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......Did I get that right?.... Huh

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Paul... Grin

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Dell Dimension 5000 BTX Tower. Win7 Home Edition, 32 Bit. Intel Pentium 4, dual 2.8 GHz. 2.5GB RAM, nVidia GF 9500GT 1GB. SATA 500GB + 80GB. Philips 17" LCD Monitor. Micronet ADSL Modem only. Saitek Cyborg Evo Force. FS 2004 + FSX. Briggs and Stratton Petrol Lawn Mower...Motor Bikes. Gas Cooker... and lots of musical instruments!.... ...!
Yamaha MO6,MM6,DX7,DX11,DX21,DX100,MK100,EMT10,PSR400,PSS780,Roland GW-8L v2,TR505,Casio MT-205,Korg CX3v2 dual manual,+ Leslie 760,M-Audio Prokeys88,KeyRig,Cubase,Keyfax4,Guitars,Orchestral,Baroque,Renaissance,Medieval Instruments.

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