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.

V 21H1 Build 19043.1586 ( on both the new laptop and old desktop)

try here Windows Driver Download and Update - DriverGuide

Thanks, I will!

Try using Lexmark Universal Printing Driver. It supports PCL5, PCL6 and PS Page Description Languages. I tried it on my ancient HP Laserjet 1200 and it worked.

eLPuSHeR said:

Try using Lexmark Universal Printing Driver. It supports PCL5, PCL6 and PS Page Description Languages. I tried it on my ancient HP Laserjet 1200 and it worked.

The universal driver seems to install properly. When I attempt to print a document, the printer does wake up and the doc goes into the printer queue. But nothing else happens. (no printout)

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Sven1458 said:

try here Windows Driver Download and Update - DriverGuide

The installation exe for an appropriate driver from the site will not run: A red window pops up with "The app has been blocked for your protection. An administrator has blocked you from running this app. For more information contact the administrator."

Use Dism to export all drivers from the desktop
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
dism /online /export-driver /destination:D:\MyDrivers (replace D:\MyDrivers with the path you want to save the drivers)

On the laptop update the printers driver (point where you stored the drivers from the desktop)

Jazzjohn said:

Thanks. Ran DISM and got a long list of folders. How to tell which is the printer driver? The names are cryptic and there were no obvious names for the Samsung ML-1200 driver which works with the Lexmark printer on the desktop machine.

On the printer test page printout, the driver name is simply "Samsung ML-1200 Series".

Open device manager, go to the printer driver, select update and browse to the folder where you have the desktop drivers.
It will look on every folder for the printer driver

Megahertz said:

Open device manager, go to the printer driver, select update and browse to the folder where you have the desktop drivers.
It will look on every folder for the printer driver

Sorry, but not following. On the working desktop machine, the printer is not listed under "Printers" but is under "Print queues" as "Samsung ML-1200 series (Copy 2)".
Recall that this is set up as a TCP-IP printer connection using a DLink parallel-to-ethernet adapter, which I'm sure complicates matters.

On the notebook, there's only "Microsoft IPP Class Drive" under Printers and a Brother network printer under "WSD Print Provider" in device man.