I did allow the changes just not immediately Spybot asked me to as the install process was still going and i didn't want to interrupt it. The Spybot alert boxes were still there after the install finished so I just accepted them one by one at that point.
Anyway I've just reinstalled and accepted each registry change as soon as the the Spybot alert appeared whilst the install was proceeding. I'm not sure if this was the issue but I've printed a jpg and a text document no problem so very happy about that so far....
I've noticed that when I'm trying to print a text document from within Star Office, the print option box opens and the defaults choice is fax as opposed to my printer. Also the default setting for printing seems to be colour as opposed to B&W. I'm not sure if this is down to the Star software or the Lexmark so can I alter these defaults so I don't have to change them each time I want to print a text document in that way?
Cheers
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Update:
Odd eh - but logging out/in seems to be the root of the problem. If I restart the PC the printer works fine but as soon as I log into another account the Scan & Copy icon in the taskbar gets a little red circle with a white x inside it and the connection problem appears....
Anyone got any ideas?
Cheers as always!!