Vista’s UAC prevents standard users from installing printer drivers by default. This can cause a problem, especially if you use a logon script or group policy preferences to add shared printers to the user profile.

Luckily there’s a quick group policy fix that will allow users to add printers without any prompt. Once configured, you should be able to log on with a user account that automatically adds the printer without a hitch.

Today, I had to setup an Oki C5650 on a network, and find out how many pages had passed through it due to an surprisingly quick turnaround in toner. I was struggling to find the default admin password for the web interface as it wasn’t in the online manual. Knowling that searching the internet is [...]

I was having a great deal of trouble installing printer drivers in Vista for the Xerox Phaser 6100. Online, Xerox say that the XP drivers wok fine in Vista, so use them until the new drivers come out. I’ve spent two hours trying the get the badger to work. And what was it in the [...]

I’ve been sitting on some toner cartridges for some time wondering how I could return them. They have travelled many miles in my car, acted as a prop for bags and generally been in the way at any other time. By some luck (and a bit of clever Google searching), I managed to find a [...]

I finally completed getting all of my printers working together nicely today. It’s been a while, but I must admit that while I’m using the Windows XP virtual machine for my office work, the need to print in Linux is not that great. Oddly, the HP psc 2510 was the first to behave itself. Using [...]