Solved hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 2008

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  1. dzigner Bronze Member

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    Hi
    As the title suggests, I just bought a HP Photosmart Plus b209a printer, and it works great wirelessly, on our laptops, as well as the desktop. I could install the CD without any difficulty on laptops - one vista, one win 7.
    I cannot install it on my desktop with windows server 2008. Needless to say, I contacted the tech support for HP for this, and they responded by providing me a link to some driver installation file for corporate use. I downloaded and tried installing it without success. The guy said they had no support for the server OS, and no plan to do so in future.
    I would really like to use all the features of the printer with my desktop.
    If you could help me with getting HP drivers for Windows Server 2008, much obliged.
    Thanks

    dzigner, Nov 29, 2010
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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    Hello and welcome back dzigner.:)

    I have marked your thread open to attract the attention of one of our tech's. so someone will be with you shortly.
    apemax17, Nov 30, 2010
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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    Hello dzigner :)

    If HP says they do not offer drivers to provide full support of the printer for Server 2008, I'm not certain I can offer you. Per your statement from the HP support staff -
    I would suspect that the Windows 7 driver (32 or 64 bit) would be the closest you will come to finding Server 2008 drivers. If those don't work for you, then I believe our hands are tied....
    DCiAdmin, Dec 5, 2010
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  5. dzigner Bronze Member

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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    hi
    thnx, where would i find windows 7 drivers?
    tasneem
    dzigner, Dec 6, 2010
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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    Here's the link to them, just put in windows 7 32 or 64 bit, whichever version of server 2008 you're using.
    Xeno1, Dec 6, 2010
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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    hi
    thnx for the link, but I have already tried it and it does not work.
    tasneem
    dzigner, Dec 7, 2010
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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    Then unless Xeno has a Christmas miracle in his pocket, I believe we have tapped our HP driver options.

    I am sorry, dzigner. We can't win them all :(
    DCiAdmin, Dec 7, 2010
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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    I looked for quite a while and couldn't find a driver for it. The last resort would be to try one of those driver finder programs. There is one that I use on a very rare occasion called DriverMax and it gives you 2 free driver downloads per day so you don't have to pay for it. You can get it here. - DriverMax - FREE driver download program for Windows XP & Vista
    Xeno1, Dec 8, 2010
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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    hi
    thnx, will try that and let u know.
    thnx again guys/gals.
    Tasneem
    dzigner, Dec 8, 2010
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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    Thanks and best of luck! I hope you are able to find something :mrgreen: We look forward to your update.
    DCiAdmin, Dec 8, 2010
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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    Hi,

    Was the information provided helpful in getting your issue resolved? An update would be gratefully appreciated.
    Xeno1, Dec 29, 2010
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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    Hi
    None of the available drivers work on windows 2008. So I just copied the scan exe file from my laptop to my desktop, and that works. I didnt get the complete Solution Centre, but I got what I needed most that was to print and scan from my desktop. Though printing is wireless, but for scanning I have to use USB cable.
    If anybody finds a better way, just let me know.
    Thanks
    dzigner, Dec 30, 2010
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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    windows 2008. What is that?
    samuria, Dec 30, 2010
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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    He means Server 2008, Samuria. That's addressed earlier in the thread :)
    DCiAdmin, Dec 30, 2010
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    Re: hp photosmart plus drivers for windows 20

    Try vuescan this is a generic scanner driver util that does 90% of scanners it may just work
    samuria, Dec 30, 2010
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