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September 30th, 2003 14:00
Panasonic KX-P6500 print driver problem with XP
I am having problems finding a working KX-P6500 print driver for XP. There are several web sites that offer this driver for XP (drivers.com, panasonic.com), but I am unable to get it to work correctly. After installing the driver, the printer would not print until after I reboot the system. The document would then print out correctly but the printer would shoot out blank pages afterward. Does anyone know of a driver that will work for this configuration. Thank you in advance for your reply post.
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Posted September 30th, 2003 18:00
Thanks for your reply. Panasonic does offer an XP driver for this printer>http://panasonic.co.jp/pcc/products/en/printer/model/mlp/p6500/p6500download.htm. I would imagine that since it is offered on the printer's manufacture website, that it should work. It does work much better than the supplied windows driver (98 and before) but it is still buggy. Just wanted to know if anyone has used this driver and if they are experiencing the same difficulties.
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Posted September 30th, 2003 20:00
You cannot use the Win98 drivers with Windows XP. You must have Windows XP specific drivers. The software and hardware requirements for Windows XP are much different than the requirements for other operting systems.
Since they have some type of WinXP drivers, which wasn't listed in the drivers section that I accessed for that printer, it should work.
Since this is an older printer (parallel) port printer, you will need to change the printer port mode, in the BIOS, to EPP or even BI-Directional. Most older printers cannot handle the faster ECP port mode which is the default mode new PC's are shipped with.
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Posted October 1st, 2003 00:00
Thanks for your reply! Tried changing bios setting to epp (was set on ps/2), still acting the same. When a print job is sent to the spooler (?), it will sit there and not print, nor am I able to purge it out. It holds the print job there until I reboot, at which time it then prints out perfectly on it's own. I am stumped on this one. I greatly appreciate the replys! Jack298
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Posted October 1st, 2003 09:00
"Set to PS/2" ????? All the Bios settings I've seen are ECP, EPP, Bi-Directional and some old BIOS may have a one-way setting, but not a PS/2. You must have been in the wrong area of the BIOS.
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Posted November 14th, 2003 05:00
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Posted September 30th, 2003 15:00
This is a relatively old printer and is apparently not XP compatible. There are no XP drivers, that I found, on the Panasonic site, just drivers for DOS, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. If you are getting any functionality out of it, I doubt that you will get more.
At some point you are going to have to let "old reliable" go and buy a Windows XP compatible printer, to have a fully functional printer.
This happens to a lot of users. They either upgrade their present PC to Win XP or they buy a new Win XP and then find out the older hardware is not compatible with XP. Same way with a lot of older software, especially DOS software, it's not XP compatible.