Install laser326 on windows 7 / Vista while using physics common wireless access point

First, download the HP universal postscript driver. 32 bit or 64 bit depends on your system. Click it to run, it will self unzip. Remember its location.

Now click Start->Devices and Printers (Start->Control panel->Printers for vista). Click Add a printer-> "Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer".

Your computer will start to search for printers. Click "Stop". Click "The printer that I want isn't listed". Select "Select a shared printer by name". In the box below that, type in

\\physprt\laser326

Click Next, A window pops up states that the server does not have the correct driver installed. Click "OK". The driver selection window pops up. Click "Have Disk.." Browse to the location you saved the driver, select any .inf file, click "Open" and then "OK". Pick "HP Universal Printing PS" and then click "OK".

We have a problem with HP's universal postscript driver at this point. The installation process never pass the step "Connecting to laser326 on physprt". It is trying hard to figure out the printer properties, but the other side is not actually a printer, but a printer server.

After sometime, click "cancel", and then click "next" on the previous dialog box again. This time, it should say "You've successfully added laser326 on physprt". Click "Next" -> "Finish". But there is no printer icon for laser326. Click on the "Refresh" button which is to the right of the address box. The icon for "laser 326 on physprt" should appear. You can also close the "Devices and Printers" folder and open it again from start menu.

Now we need to confgure the printer. First, disconnect your computer from the network. This is to prevent the driver trying to query the printer properties automatically. Right click the newly created printer and select "Printer properties" (Properties fpr vista). Select "Ports" panel, and un-check "Enable bidirectional support",


Select "Device Settings" panel, change "Available PostScript Memory" to 32767

followed by "OK", and re-connect your network.