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manual driver install
I have an old printer that was installed years ago on a Win 7 desktop computer. After converting the machine to Win 10, the printer continued to work correctly.
Now I have a new Win 10 laptop and cannot find a driver for the printer that works.
How can I find and copy the driver file(s) from the old desktop, manually install them and configure the registry to get the printer to work? Is this possible?
Since the printer is currently working on a Win 10 machine, it should be able to work on any Win 10 machine, I hope!
The printer is a Lexmark E210 with a parallel port connected to a D-Link ethernet-to-parallel print server. The Lexmark driver did not work when I upgraded from 7 to 10 several years ago, but a Samsung driver did. That driver seems to be unavailable now.
In case you're thinking "just buy a new printer"... I have a new Brother printer but it does not print at exactly 100% scale like the Lexmark does. That's why I want to keep the old Lexmark alive. I need to print gerber files at exactly the correct size.
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