and it had no problems this time, loaded the printer up and connected, printed a test page and all seems well, I then restarted the pc thinking maybe it will stop working once other programs are started, but no, it is still found and shown as default printer *Smile I then retried Neomatter's advice and went into devices, add printer ect. So got me thinking (a rare and dangerous thing), if the network was managing to find the printer there must be a program stopping it from installing here on my pc, I went through my programs and stopped any non essential programs that may be causing the errors. I feel so stupid right now, I have managed to fix the printer connection, I tried your advice Simple about pinging the printer from the admin command prompt, and that came back fine, no problems there. I thought maybe my printer could be goosed, but I borrowed a friends laptop and we tried printing over the wifi and it worked fine, I will find the problem somehow, must be right in front of me somewhere, most likely laughing *Biggrin
Maybe I have old install's of programs corrupting the drivers, is their a program that will delete old programs or drivers without messing up what is working? I did get another error pop up from somewhere while I was trying your advice which was 'error 1-10' I googled it and it mentioned missing Windows components, could have something to do with it maybe?
If I try to install the drivers through the Kodak printer set-up utility program, the software detects the printer but then tries to install the drivers for maybe 3 minutes before it comes up with the error 'your printer was not detected, driver was not installed' The Driver Whiz tool ran the scan but found 81 drivers all up to date. If I try to find my printer in devices it won't show anything, even on the devices and printers section, it has nothing in the printer section for my Kodak printer, but I have the printer connected by cable to the pc, which the pc does detect when I plug in the usb.
Unfortunately the suggestions did not work for me, I have the ip address for the printer but when I try to ping the printer from Windows 10 all I get is 'Printer Driver not installed, system cannot find the file specified' and just stops. Hi and thank you all for the help up to now, Follow the prompts and it should be like above. Also makes it easy to access the web controls to network printer. That way you can input that IP into the TCP/IP find field and it should be detected. The easiest would be to assign a static IP to the network printer via router. However, if it does not list the printer with the 'My printer is a little older.', you will have to search for it by one of the other methods.
Find 'Kodak' and see if the driver certificate is present, highlight it and click nextĨ) It should start the install and you should be done. Help me find it' and click nextĥ) See if it shows in the list now - if it does, it should be highlighted - click nextĦ) You will then be brought to a driver installation screenħ) It should be grouped by Manufacturer.
You can try the following to see if it will resolve the issue:Ģ) In Printer and Scanners, click 'Add a printer or scanner' - let it runģ) It should show 'The printer that I want isn't listed' - click on thisĤ) You can try to select 'My printer is a little older. If not, it should have at least installed the driver certificate into Win10. If the above worked, see if you can use the printer.
exe file is designed for* and check 'Run this program as an adminstrator'. Under Compatibility tab, check 'Run this program in compatibility mode for: *select the Windows version the. First thing, you need to get those drivers into Windows 10.