Control Panel Add Printer issue

[glharlor]

Anyone else having issues with Control panel printer install function obtaining drivers from windows update? If I chose download from windows update I see the list, and pick the proper driver. Eventually I am notified that windows failed to install the driver. This is in a business setting, and I dont want to use, or cannot use the miserable replacement they have put in settings.

I can always download a driver, but in many cases for older printers, the latest and sometime only driver is the one supplied by microsoft.

Help

 

[Vinkamp]

You can try to find out exactly what your printer's name is.
And then install the drivers manually.

 

[glharlor]

I can get the printer installed, I just cannot do it with default windows drivers, that is the problem. I also cannot add it in the new windows printer add as they are on a completely separate ip scheme.

 

[JonMMM]

With my work Printer (Konica Minolta) if I use the windows drivers then print a test page it prints a continuous ream of rubbish, the official software from the manufacturer works perfectly