I bought an Acer laptop it has windows Vista basic.Hooked it up to my network here at work and all that went fine.Turned off printer Lexmark X4270, installed drivers and software for it from the Lexmark web site for Vista onto the laptop,also updated drivers on host computer.Restarted the lap top and turned on the printer.It can see the printer(says its available) but when I try to print a test page it tells me it is sending page to the printer then I get communication is not available.If I disconnect the usb connection on the printer the printer available greys out on the printer window in Vista.I can print from the host computer.Host computer is Win XP pro.Router is a LinkSys wireless G broadband.Printer to host computer is usb cable,host to router is network cable,Acer laptop to router is network cable.Printer is only usb capable no network connection.All other communication on the network is fine file sharing,internet etc...I have restarted laptop printer and host computer numerous times no change.

Chris

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