The good news is that the printer now works with the desktop with XP on it. It had all sorts of not-workingness going on before, and absolutely refused to work. But, thanks to necessity (see the bad news), I had to get it to work, so a little googling later, I discovered a way that might just fix the damn thing. Luckily, I have a copy of the drivers already downloaded from the Lexmark website – they don’t seem to have them there any more for such old printers as the X75. They just want to brag about their shiny new wireless printers. I followed the instructions, and lo and behold, it worked. I will have to remember to write that up on my tips page so I can do it again, if need be.

The bad news is the reason why I had to unplug the printer from the craptop. Let me explain why I am making such a fuss about unplugging the printer from the craptop: it is because despite it being plug ‘n’ play, if the printer is unplugged from the craptop, it refuses to work when you plug it back in again; you have to uninstall the driver and reinstall it. However, I had no choice about the matter, because I needed to print something off, but I seem to have done something bad to the craptop. It now only wants to run a limited version of GRUB.

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categories: Nature and Science and Tech
tags: breaking things, computing, mending things, printers, top tips
series: The craptop