printer

[roystheboy]

hello my sons got a printer installed on his PC its a Lexmark its old and not working very well so I gave him my one an Epson R200 ,but when I tried to Install the Epson printer it all Installed of the disc O.K. but it didnt show up in the printers list and it dont work ,also i tried uninstalling the Lexmark went into add remove found the Lexmark printer clicked uninstall but got a message you cant uninstall this printer its still in use allthough I have disconected it ,so he is stuck now with the Epson conected up to his pc but dont work hope you guys can help cheers

what OS??

[DocDutch]

if its Windows 7 or Vista you just plug the Epson R200 in and Windows will detect it (got the printer myself)

I got the R300

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I know this is gonna sound stupid but you did turn it on?

[haydnwalker]

The Lexmark might not uninstall if there's something in the print queue...

[roystheboy]

hi its windows xl and yes it is turned on sounds like i need to uninstall the lexmark first but how thanks again cheers guys

it should not matter. Goto start printers and double click the lexmark. See if there is a print queue although tbh I dunno why it would matter.If this somehow allows the install ok all is good

If however it does not help open control panel switch to classic view open printers and if the epson isnt there click add printer click next make sure local printer and auto detect are ticked. Windows will search . If it does not find the printer on the next screen select USB0001 and click next. Then click have disc and browse to the drivers on the cd. Follow on screen nstructions

[roystheboy]

thanks a lot I will do exactly what you said when I go up my sons house in a couple of days cheers mate cant thank you enough take care