I wish I had my own Windows developer

[pscot]

I'd chain him to the fir tree and the back yard and go out and beat him with a stick whenever Windows really pissed me off. He'd be bruised from head to foot.

[Make7]

1. What's the salary and benefits package like? ( n/t )

[ManiacJoe]

2. Some folks pay extra for that.

Or so I have been told!

[steve2470]

3. anything in particular we can help you with, sans the beating ?

[pscot]

4. I've been trying to get Wndows to recognize my printer

since 1995. Sometimes it does; sometimes it doesn't. It seems as though any minor alteration to the system configuration moves it into the "doesn't" category. I lack the patience for this sort of thing. I guess I could simply wire it up, but that's so inelegant.

[steve2470]

5. what exact model of printer ?

I'll help you if I can.

[pscot]

6. Epson WF3540

running (occasionally) under Windows 7. I had put in a new Medialink router and all was good until my wife somehow fried the router. I installed my old Linksys and haven't been able to print since. In the toing and froing I've obviously left some box unchecked or button unpushed, but I can't seem to find it. I know I'm going to have to disable the network and reinstall the router, but I'm resisting the idea. I think there's some kind of emotional block.

[steve2470]

7. I would register here and post in the Win7 forum

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home

Usually within a day or so, someone ambles along with a good answer. Microsoft monitors those forums, so you might get someone who knows something. Good luck !

[pscot]

8. Good luck, just about sums it up, sadly.

[lastlib]

10. Wait a minute--methinks you got those two clauses in the wrong place.....

"[S]omeone who knows something" probably should not be preceded by a statement pertaining to Microsoft....

my 2cts....

[ChromeFoundry]

9. Wired or Wireless LAN?

This model can connect to your network either via a Ethernet cable or by way of a Wireless WiFi connection.

If you are going Wireless and changed out your router, reconfigure the SSID and WiFi Key to connect to the new access point.

For both Wired and Wireless connections, configure your router to assign a DHCP IP reservation for the MAC address (they are different for Wired and Wireless) of the network connection of the printer to something within the range of your DHCP IP addresses pool.

WiFi Connection Example:
WF3540 Wireless MAC address: 5f:4e:25:34:FF:31
Routers IP address: 192.168.1.1
SSID: linksys
WiFi Key: <your secret passkey>
DHCP Starting IP: 192.168.1.100
DHCP Addresses: 100
Assign MAC Address 5f:4e:25:34:FF:31 to 192.168.1.150
Configure WF3540 to Connect to SSID "linksys" with passkey and use Automatic IP Address Configuration (DHCP).

From your computer, remove your old Printer, then, Add a New Network Printer... Have it scan your network and install automatically.

You have to do this when you swap out the router because the SSID, BSSIS and Access Point have all changed.
Wireless printers are great when nothing changes... I always stick to Wired connections for network appliances and servers - way less configuration headaches.

Hope this steers you in the right direction.

[Thor_MN]

13. You have a printer that is almost 20 years old and it still works (sometimes)?

Not very helpful to you, but I would view that as a bonus that you can get it to work sometimes.

[pscot]

14. Yeah but it's kind of hard to find a driver

for a Star 9-pin dot matrix

[Thor_MN]

15. Not to mention a parallel port card...

[hobbit709]

16. USB to parallel adapter works just fine.

Just did that for a friend who upgraded her office computer to a Win 7 one which had no parallel port for her old HP laserjet. Plugged it into adapter. Win 7 said new hardware found, installed and it's been printing just fine since.

[jrandom421]

11. The problem is

you couldn't afford to hire one or even get one on contract.

[steve2470]

12. get your problem solved ?

It looked like ChromeFoundry had the answers.