Comments on: How to Backup Printer Drivers and Restore Them on Another Computer

By: Will

Will — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:02:48 +0000

This works great for the printers, which won’t show up on a normal driver backup utility like WinDriversBackup.

Use the above in tandem and you should be able to restore everything, though if you are re-imaging that many computers I’d hope you would have better imaging solutions.

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:48:50 +0000

Windows 7 no trae el controlador de la impresora Epson FX 1170, lo hice con esta aplicacion y funciona perfecto

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:20:26 +0000

Hi Binh,

Unfortunately, I don’t know why it’s doing this. Like I said, I’ve never run into this problem before as long as I have been using this utility. Hopefully this will work on the rest of your drivers and save you the trouble from at least having to reinstall all the others.

By: Binh

Binh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:03:38 +0000

Downloading and installing the drivers for the HP printers worked. This fix is fine if i were trying to migrate just 1 printer but i’m working on a project that is re-imaging all their computers in the company (3000 PCs) where there are many different printer models and manufacture. So this would be a pain to try to re-install all the drivers again. Do you know what could migrate this particular USB printing driver support?

By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:05:38 +0000

Okay, try downloading the drivers from HP’s website and see if that fixes the problem. There must have been something with the USB support that it couldn’t copy over for some reason. Let me know what happens.

By: Binh

Binh — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:46:45 +0000

Hi Casey

I have a HP Deskjet 3820 which does not have a card reader. Looking at the properties of the “Hewlett Packard” under “Other Devices” in Device Manager it says something like “on HP USB Printing Support” or something similar to it. This is also doing it to other standard printers as well. No extra features on the printers, just printing.

TIA

By: Binh

Binh — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:46:08 +0000

Hi Casey

TIA

By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:44:53 +0000

Hi Binh,

I’ve never run into that problem when using this utility before. Does the printer have a card reader? If so, that’s probably why you are being prompted because this utility won’t copy over that driver. You would have to go to HP’s website and download the full driver to fix it.

By: binh

binh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:03:15 +0000

This is a good tool. It seems like it carried all of the drivers to the other computer. When I plug in the printer, I see the “Add Hardware Wizard” window comes up. So i just click Next to let windows install it but it cannot find the drivers. I looked under Device Manager and it has a section called “Other Devices” and under that “Hewlett Packard. But I was able to communicate with the printer and print a test page. Do you know how to fix the Add Hardware Wizard from popping up?

By: jeroen

jeroen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:28:13 +0000

super, works , its simple, cant get any better. thank you so much…