HP Printer in Windows 98 Second Edition

[Dan]

I wanted to let the newsgroup know that I successfully installed the Windows
2000 printer driver for my HP printer in Windows 98 Second Edition and it
works fine. I would suggest anyone to try and see if they can get a Windows
2000 basic driver to work for their Windows 98 Second Edition if they are
unable to get a hold of the Windows 98 Second Edition driver.

 

[philo]

"Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A4B00BD9-E5A3-4CC1-9FCC-68D5D36C7A7C@microsoft.com...
> I wanted to let the newsgroup know that I successfully installed the
Windows
> 2000 printer driver for my HP printer in Windows 98 Second Edition and it
> works fine. I would suggest anyone to try and see if they can get a
Windows
> 2000 basic driver to work for their Windows 98 Second Edition if they are
> unable to get a hold of the Windows 98 Second Edition driver.


Thanks.

I also noticed that an older printer driver may work.

Recently I installed an HP model 612 on a win98 machine.

Win98 did not have a built-in driver for that model...so I tried the model
600 driver contained in windows and it worked fine

 

[Franc Zabkar]

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:26:00 -0800, Dan
<Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> put finger to keyboard and composed:

>I wanted to let the newsgroup know that I successfully installed the Windows
>2000 printer driver for my HP printer in Windows 98 Second Edition and it
>works fine. I would suggest anyone to try and see if they can get a Windows
>2000 basic driver to work for their Windows 98 Second Edition if they are
>unable to get a hold of the Windows 98 Second Edition driver.

Maybe this technique will work for *any* driver that conforms to
Microsoft's WDM spec.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Driver_Model

"The Microsoft Windows Driver Model defined a unified driver model for
the Windows 98 and Windows 2000 lines by standardizing requirements
and reducing the amount of code that needed to be written. WDM drivers
will not run on operating systems earlier than Windows 98 or Windows
2000, such as Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 3.1. By
conforming to WDM, drivers can be binary compatible and source
compatible across Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me,
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista (for
backwards compatibility) on x86-based computers. WDM is designed to be
backward-compatible. That is, a version of WDM will be compatible with
drivers written for earlier WDM versions."

- Franc Zabkar
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