Alchav21 - Glad to have another pair of eyes looking at this. The workgroup name is interesting. Mine since it started as the XP default (MSHOME) that it has stayed. I may consider changing, but not right now that I have several active PC's and printers. Not all the printers in my posting are active any longer, in fact the shared printers are physically in the closet as I have gone to direct attached and wireless as I have upgraded. Then I don't have to leave a PC on.

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I googled the error code and it took me to Microsoft's Technet and a thread with a similar problem. One of the responses is copied below. The full discussion is fairly long, three pages on the site and stretching from Jan '07 to May '08, as various people have joined in.

Here is the one I found most interesting. It was posted Nov 20, 2007 by adyreeves:

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A BREAK THROUGH... for myself only; or for ppl that uses the same Printer and OS versions like me.

Like some other ppl here I want to add, that this is not a critical error on Vista but a comunication bug created by the custom properties of the printer´ drivers.

I am using:
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• {color:#0000ff}a wireless Vista based (Home Premium) OS laptop.{color}
• {color:#0000ff}Sitecom WL 183 wireless router.(I assume this is installed correct and with all the features working good, as also the firewalls on both computers){color}
• {color:#0000ff}a desktop XP Media Center sp2.{color}
• {color:#0000ff}a Lexmark P707 printer.{color}

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The printer is connected to the XP via USB Virtual port.

1° There I just had to uninstall all the old printer drivers and delete the printer itself (also the previously created ports)

2° Then I´ve created a clean install with the VISTA DRIVERS ON THE XP MACHINE.

3° After everything was OK, restarted the PC and ADD Local Printer. The wizards do everything(assuming that other make´ Vista Printer Installer will work on XP).

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• {color:#0000ff}Few things to add before you work on Vista:{color}

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• Disable Simple sharing on the folder options and enable File and Printer sharing wizard

• On both computers you should have same User account and same password.

• Create and enable shares on both computers

• The router is installed correctly if you´ll be able to browse through those shares.

Vista Laptop will work like this.

The laptop can see now the shares on XP pc and also the shared printer from the XP machine.

Just right-click on the shared printer... Connect. Now a pop-up will say : If you want to use the shared printer on you have to install the drivers for this printer. Click install drivers.

After the installing of drivers go on your Vista printers folder and you should find your printer overthere. Make it default.

The PROBLEM now is that the spooler on the XP won´t accept (or maybe it does but with me crashed continuously) the jobs directed from the Vista. In this matter I´ve done 2 things. On Xp I´ve shared the C:/Windows/system32/spool/PRINTERS, and on the Vista, right click, Properties, Sharing tab, Cheked the Render print jobs on clientcomputers.

And it finally worked after 2 WEEKS of trying to work it arround like other ppl tried, and 2 weeks of annoying my wife by staying continuously on those plastic deavils.

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If this does not work, then we can experiment with some other drivers. You may have noted back in Post #6 that my XP machine is showing a deskjet 990c shared printer. I do not own, nor have I ever owned a 990c. I have a Photosmart 8250 which connects only via USB, and when I installed the two sided print attachment, on the second page the margins were offset by 1/2". After working for a while with tech support he finally came back and said there was a problem in the driver and had me install it as a 990c, and it worked. It stayed that way for almost a year before I finally looked for updated 8250 drivers.

In the Technet discussion, on respondent pointed out that he solved his problem by direct connecting the printer to the router thorough a print server.

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That is the fly in the ointment. Drivers that are embedded in Vista are not ones that can be installed individually. There is an instruction toward the end, that once the Vista machine can see the shared folders and printers, you right click on the printer and then you should see something about having to install the drivers for the printer and asks if you want to do so. If you answer yes, then Vista should install the drivers over the network onto the XP machine.

This is a process I have never had to go through. I am at a loss to explain why it is so complex on your machine. I even looked to see if there were updated XP drivers available, but just the original 2004 drivers. When I shared my old HP LJ4P and the Photosmart 8250 installed as a Deskjet 990c, it set up in 5 minutes. I bought the PS 8250 around Christmas 2004, so they are not much newer than your DJ 5470.

I added a comment to my previous post about one respondent solved his problem by directly connecting his printer to the router via a print server. I check Best Buy and the only ones they have are wireless for around $100, but Newegg has a good selection. You will have to make your own decision on that as apparently by reading some reviews, they have their own problems.

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