We all have our individual preferences for equipment, so I won't get into
who's printer is better. <g>  What I have found with new generation of HP
printers is that the software is what causes the network problems.  After
all hardware is hardware and a printer is a printer.

I have had very good success hooking up "non-network" HP printers.  I have
that very same "Sam's Club" 820 printer on my home network (Win98
"server", Win95 "clients") and both of my daughters can print to it any
time they want with no problems.

Two weeks ago, I finished installing an all Win98 network for a client and
it has an HP 722C and the "All-in-one" HP 3100se.  Both of those models
are supposedly non-networkable.
The only glitch is that - at boot up -  the HP driver will display an
error message on the  PCs which are not actually attached to the printers.
The error says the printer is not turned on and has two buttons RETRY and
CANCEL.  The client clicks the CANCEL button and everything works just
fine all day long.


Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Thiel <[log in to unmask]>



>Some models of HP printers can't be shared on networks. My boss had a HP
>820cxi (or cse...I can't remember for sure now) and the manual states
that
>it can't be used on a network.

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