[cobrastang4u]

I purchased a HP designjet 600 plotter. I have a Windows Vista laptop. I had to purchase a cable that had a parallel connection on one end and the other end is a usb connection. I downloaded a printer driver for windows xp because the drivers didn't exist for windows vista. I downloaded this from HP's website. It looks like a communication problem between the plotter and the computer. When I run a test mode on the plotter it works fine. Need your help as soon as you can. I am being stubborn and trying to stay up until I can get it to plot. Thanks for any advice.

[NairobiPOD]

Hi,
those adapters from USB to parallel usually don't work without problems. You could purchese an external printserver, where you can connect the printer with a normal parallel cable, and the Printserver to the network (assuming you have a network: switch, router, Wifi-Router with LAN-Connection etc.). I recommend "JetDirect 170X" you should get it in eBay for around 10$.

If you have trouble installing it check out the manual on the HP Page: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?contentType=SupportManual&lang=e n&cc=uk&docIndexId=64902&taskId=135&prodTypeId=189 72&prodSeriesId=27317

About the driver: There is no vista driver for the device, because the product is not supported by HP anymore. The XP-Driver should work, but I can't promisse you that!

[donf]

I suggest that you look through the list of drivers contained in Vista and see if you can find a generic plotter driver.

Vista does not seem to tolerate other platform drivers.

[mannhaterjeff]

I have the same issue. The drivers from HP don't want to load, says they 're not for an x64 system. I am not sure I want to spend any more money until I see the driver work. Did you get yours working?