{"id":4785,"date":"2012-09-18T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2012-09-17T21:53:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T11:53:18","slug":"old-printers-and-new-operating-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/old-printers-and-new-operating-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Printers and New Operating Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Windows 8 almost upon us in terms of full public release and sale it&#8217;s worth giving a thought to printer compatibility.\u00a0Simple tethered printers will usually be less susceptible to being left behind when operating systems are updated however multi-function and networked printers may not fare so well.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, I have an aging HP Officejet 7410 at home which has done a remarkable job since it was purchased perhaps six or seven years ago apart from its Wi-Fi adapter fizzling out (requiring manual disconnection in order to keep the printer working). However, with the upgrade to Windows 8 I have not been able to get the printer to install properly. The printer is detected successfully however no matter how many times I retry the installation it refuses to work.<\/p>\n<p>Things I have tried so far are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Running the installation in compatibility mode (Windows 7),<\/li>\n<li>Running the installation as administrator,<\/li>\n<li>Uninstalling the software and reinstalling from scratch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep plugging away at this problem but it seems like there isn&#8217;t much out on the web to help resolve this issue for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is a timely reminder to work out if you might run into problems with major peripherals such as printers before you upgrade or being in new computers just so you don&#8217;t run into any unexpected surprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Windows 8 almost upon us in terms of full public release and sale it&#8217;s worth giving a thought to printer compatibility.\u00a0Simple tethered printers will usually be less susceptible to being left behind when operating systems are updated however multi-function and networked printers may not fare so well. For instance, I have an aging HP &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/old-printers-and-new-operating-systems\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[293,1048,835],"class_list":["post-4785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-hp","tag-officejet","tag-printer","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}