Why won't my printers work with my new 64-bit Vista machine?

Happy Friday! It's back to business after a week of quality time with the family. This year for the kids' spring break, we drove up to the mountains for some fun in the snow. It's been a while since I've seen so much fresh powder in this area, especially around this time of year, and we had a blast with endless snowball fights, snow angels galore, snow tubing, and of course snowmen! OK, enough talk of snow; let's plow forward to help Paul with getting his older printers working on his new Vista 64-bit machine.

Well, Paul, I have good news for you. Despite what your buddy told you, you didn't screw up by buying this Vista machine. And it's very likely that you will be getting your older printers up and running soon with all the support that you have received from your fellow members. From reading through all the answers, both printers will work on your system; you'll just have to download new drivers for both printers from the manufactures' sites.

When Vista was first released, especially the 64-bit version, a lot of drivers were not available for older hardware, but since Vista has been release for quite some time now, many manufactures have caught up and have updated their driver catalog with the latest ones so that folks like you will be able to use your old peripherals with newer operating systems. I have selected a few answers from our members to get you started, but please read through all the responses . Good luck and thank you to all who took the time out to help Paul out. Have a nice weekend!

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