October 18
How to share a printer between 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows
I recently installed Windows 7 64-bit on my laptop, and found myself unable to install a driver for the Canon Pixma iP4200, which I have shared from my 32-bit version of Windows 7. Normally you can do this by installing multiple drivers on the host machine by pointing Windows at the .inf file for the other version of Windows you want to use. Well, Canon drivers don’t come with an .inf file. So I contacted them, and these are the instructions, which are really easy and should work with any printer. They’re unintuitive, so I thought I’d post them.
- Install the driver on your client computer as if it were local.
- In Devices and Printers, right click the printer and click on “Printer Properties” (not “Properties”).
- On the Ports tab, add a new local port with the path to the printer. (\\Server name\Printer name).
That’s it. Any friends in Windows want to make that more automated?
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