"gene" wrote:

> has anyone had this problem:  when i try to add my main pc's lexmark x125
> printer to my wireless connected laptop it says it can't find the correct
> drivers. when i called lexmark tech they told me to install the printer
> directly on the laptop and than add it to the laptop as a shared printer.
> this worked to the point that it found the drivers (obviously) and set the
> lexmark as a shared printer. now i had 2 versions of the printer in my 
> printers & faxes list. one showed as a local and the other showed as the main
> pc's printer (so far so good), but when i try to print using the main pc's
> printer it takes down the printer subspooler system. i can attach the laptop
> to the printers usb and print using the local printer verion just fine but
> when i reattach the printer to the main pc and try to access it through the
> icon of the main pc's lexmark, down goes the print spooler. if i then delete
> the local printerk, any attempt to printer using the shared printer aborts
> the spooler.
> summary: this printer works fine on both machines as a local printer, but
> when used as a wireless remote is aborts the spooler - if i delete the local
> printer from the laptop is deletes everything including the print drivers and
> i'm back a square one.   anyone ?
> --
> genem