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Adding a printer to Win 98 computer

it_consultantit_consultant Member Posts: 1,903
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One of my clients has a medical devices that is still running Windows 98. They recently upgraded their printer to a Xerox Phaser 6280 and...no surprise, there is no printer driver for that model printer which is compatible with Win 98. Does anyone know a way around this?
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    DigitalZeroOneDigitalZeroOne Member Posts: 234 ■■■□□□□□□□
    If the client is only interested in printing regular documents, you may be able to select a Xerox printer that is not the same model as the one installed, but Windows 98 already has drivers for. I have done that many times...Someone has an HP Laserjet 450 something...I just choose HP Laserjet and it works. Since it has something to do with medical, they may need the printer for High-Res images...in that case, I don't know. Good luck.
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    alan2308alan2308 Member Posts: 1,854 ■■■■■■■■□□
    The Xerox website says it has PCL6 emulation. I'm sure that Win98 has a Laserjet driver or two included that will probably work.

    Edit: The Laserjet 4000 was the first PCL6 printer, so try that or a later model.
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