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Peripherals....
Quick possibly stupid question....
I have serviceable printers a d a scanner originzlly purchased to work with Windows XP and Vista 32 biit computers. Will they work with 64 bitcomputers using W7....
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I have serviceable printers a d a scanner originzlly purchased to work with Windows XP and Vista 32 biit computers. Will they work with 64 bitcomputers using W7....
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Not sure about the printers - you may be lucky or not. For the scanners, as a satisfied customer I can recommend Vuescan, which covers a lot of scanners on current operating systems (and in the case of my Epson much better than the original drivers). See if your scanner is here :
Supported Scanners | VueScan
Supported Scanners | VueScan
Personally I've found W7 very amenable. Plug the printer in; windoze says err wait a minute, I'll see if I can do anything... installing drivers... good to go.
It does depend how old your printer(s) are, but I haven't had a failure yet (6 printers so far). Like Deltic, however, I've found Vuescan v. useful.
It does depend how old your printer(s) are, but I haven't had a failure yet (6 printers so far). Like Deltic, however, I've found Vuescan v. useful.
My older but wi-fi enabled printer (Canon) did not like my 64 bit Win 7, and its combination with a BT 3 wifi unit, but it worked when I used a cable. As jim the rev says, it takes a few minutes, (assuming pc is connected to net).
I have some old Canon scanners which would work with Win 7 32 bit, but not with 64 bit. Canon advised that they did not intend to provide new drivers for them. However, I installed VirtualBox and then created a Win XP virtual machine which the scanners would talk to. The scans were then saved to a directory which was shared with the Win 7 host system.