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Title: using epson stylus printer 7500 in windows 7 Post by: lilhippie60 on December 31, 2010, 05:53:39 PM I bought a new computer a year or so ago and am now just getting around to using my epson stylus 7500, HELP my drivers are in xp and my new computer in windows 7, I was told by epson that it might be able to run inn qimage so i downloaded 30 day trial, if it will i'm not doing it right, still cant print. Is there a way???????????????? my other 3 printers work fine.
Title: Re: using epson stylus printer 7500 in windows 7 Post by: Terry-M on December 31, 2010, 07:40:59 PM Quote HELP my drivers are in xp and my new computer in windows 7, You need to install Windows 7 drivers; however, I've just checked the Epson web site and they are not available for your printer.If you had Windows 7 Professional, it has an XP mode option so it may be possible to run your printer in that way. Qimage does dot provide printer drivers! Terry Title: Re: using epson stylus printer 7500 in windows 7 Post by: lilhippie60 on January 08, 2011, 06:47:06 PM Thanks, I am considering buying an older used computer to run this printer on, my daughter thought maybe an external hard drive in XP, but I don't think that will work either. My laptop will read in XP mode, so far I cannot find how to on my desktop, and hp was no help when I called for the info. Thank you>>>
Title: Re: using epson stylus printer 7500 in windows 7 Post by: Terry-M on January 08, 2011, 08:45:33 PM Quote my daughter thought maybe an external hard drive in XP, but I don't think that will work either. There are ways of running 2 operating systems on one PC, usually on a separate internal hard drive. You need a PC expert for this!Terry Title: Re: using epson stylus printer 7500 in windows 7 Post by: Fred A on January 09, 2011, 10:18:19 AM Quote There are ways of running 2 operating systems on one PC, usually on a separate internal hard drive. You need a PC expert for this! Terry Yes, I have such a configuration. See my screen snap. Before I installed Vista on the D: drive, I had XP on that drive. You can see from the snap that I have W7 (64) as the default OS, with the ability to select Vista set to 10 seconds that is offered before windows boots up. I get a DOS type screen to select the D drive with Vista. I couldn't explain the steps on how to do this. The man that built my PC did this for me. I am certain there are quite a few persons on here advanced in Windows configuring that could probably walk you through this. Fred PS I just had a look on line for drivers in case I got lucky. I haven't gotten lucky in a long time though. I see there are no drivers for W7, but I also see that the updated drivers for that printer are dated 2001...... Maybe it's time to trade in the 7500 for one with power steering and power brakes? :D ;D ;) ;) ;) ;) Fred Title: Re: using epson stylus printer 7500 in windows 7 Post by: Jeff on January 09, 2011, 04:10:25 PM You can set up a dual boot system with Paragon Hard Disk Manager.
I did it to have Linux and Vista available. It was a long time ago and Linux now deleted to make HD room, I have left the Boot Manager as was ( not worth the risk of trying to revert it to a one op. system. Jeff Title: Re: using epson stylus printer 7500 in windows 7 Post by: lilhippie60 on February 06, 2011, 06:22:13 PM Thanks for all the info, I finally found out how to do it, I had to upgrade to windows 7 pro, and this allows me to run in xp mode on my desktop, and thus problem solved another 80 dollar later, but it will run all windows 7 and i can access and print in xp for you have to set up a guest account on your computer to access your windows 7 pictures and files, it took awhile, and I had to get on line and read others who have done it. It's working for me now. Thanks Again!
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