I have a sharp 1642CS connected to a desktop running Vista Home Basic and it works fine. I have set it up for shared printer and when I use my laptop with Vista Home Premium when I print a test page it only prints blank pages.
You can go into your print driver and change the Driver. I dont think there is a difference between Home or Prem drivers. There is how ever a difference between 32 bit and 64 bit Vista?
When you set up the printer and share it from a PC, The printer attached to that PC can Control the Configurartion of the printer. PC's can either pull the driver from the sharing PC or you can select your own.
I would first check that the correct drivers are installed, (64bit or 32bit)
I would check the computer that is trying to print. replace the driver with the correct one.
You can open the print server -open the printers and fax folder, right click in a white area in that folder, a menu should pop up. Select Print Server from there you will see tabs, try to replace the driver from there.
Or Open the Printer Properties and there you will see Driver-Update in there.
This is a link to an explanation
Thou it was made for XP but the basic Infomation is the same.
-->Print a test page from The Printer Properties), if it works the Computer is fine, if you try to print from a program and it prints with errors. it is in the program..
http://www.fixya.com/support/r1173318-print_driver_location_pc_print_test_page
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The desktop has the new vista drivers installed and prints just fine. The laptop is set to use this printer as shared. It appears to get the drivers from the destop. There doesn't seem to be a way for me to load drivers for a shared printer.
You have the wrong driver installed?
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