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Set Up A Printer

Printers are like vacuum cleaners: they are simple to put together. If it fits, that’s where it goes. New printers use the small, rectangular USB cable. Older printers used the big parallel port on the back of the computer. With either connector, there is only way to plug it in.

Printer Drivers
Whenever you print, you called on Windows to talk to your printer. Windows 98 talks to hardware differently than Windows 2000, XP or Vista: so each version of Windows required a different printer driver.

Windows
Vista and Windows XP simplified the mix and match of printer drivers by including an extensive collection for most popular home and office printers.