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    Lexmark Printer Drivers

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by th3van, Dec 7, 2009.

  1. th3van

    th3van Notebook Consultant

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    Does anyone know how to install just the bare drivers and any necessary software? I'm installing the Windows 7 drivers for my X2530 and it always installs this silly "Lexmark Imaging Program" that is a pain to remove from startup along with a few Lexmark services.

    Anyone? Surely these are not necessary. I was thinking I could install it through device manager with the driver .ini or something.

    Thanks.
     
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    The lexmark website is completely dragging tonight, so I cannot download the drivers and test. Sometimes, printer drivers are actually executable compressed files and unzip programs or even windows will allow you to extract the files without running the executable.

    Then you can run the add printer wizard and eventually choose something along the lines of "let me choose my printer" or "have disk" and point/browse to the extract files and install just the printer.

    Home market HP printers are not this way, but Lexmark may be. Give it a try
     
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  3. th3van

    th3van Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah I've gotten that far. 7zip will let me open it and extract files but when I tried it last time it seemed to install everything anyway. There's a lot of different folders in there, what should I be looking for?
     
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    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    God what a piece of crap website...takes forever to get to a page where you can download something

    Disconnect the printer

    Go to control panel > Programs and Features, and remove all the software.

    Now, in control panel still, choose DEVICES AND PRINTERS

    Right click the printer and choose uninstall, check the REMOVE PRINTER DRIVERS when given a chance.

    Extract the archive to your desktop

    Connect the printer. The printer wizard will start.

    Windows will try to install--it may very well install the printer without any drivers supplied by you. If not, it will ask you for a location of the drivers, point the wizard to (by browsing)

    cjb2500Win7en\drivers\win_xp2k
     
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    th3van Notebook Consultant

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    Progress!

    It installed the drivers when I pointed it towards the "drivers" folder but it's still coming up with a problem in "devices and printers". Wants me to troubleshoot and it won't let me print to it. When I check it in device manager it says everything is fine. Hmm.
     
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    define "problem"
     
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    Just that it needs to troubleshoot it. Says no driver was found. Maybe it's finding a driver for the scanning part but not the printing?
     
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