OT: Computer problem

Tx Jim · Sep 4, 2012

Anyone know the secret to get an "old" tractor feed printer(Panasonic KX-P1124) to operate on Windows XP with Quicken? All I used it for was to write checks from Quicken and it quit responding. I daughter set it up a few yrs back and it worked fine until know. My daughter can't remember what she did to get it to work on Windows XP. Thanks to anyone that can tell me.Jim

Allan in NE · Sep 4, 2012

Make sure the printer is hooked up and on.

Go into "printers and Faxes" and make it the 'default' printer.

If the icon to this printer is 'faint', there is a fault at the printer.

Allan

Tx Jim · Sep 4, 2012

Thanks Allan
I know the printer was attached and turned on. This is different because of Windows XP my daughter had to hook up the cord several years ago through a USB port.
Thanks,Jim

RodinNS · Sep 4, 2012

Make sure it's selected as the printer you're going to use for that print job...
If it's not showing up in the list then mabey the driver got lost or corrupted.
You might just be better off having your cheques printed for a laser at this point anyhow...

Rod

Tx Jim · Sep 5, 2012

(quoted from post at 12:53:06 09/04/12)
You might just be better off having your cheques printed for a laser at this point anyhow...Rod

Rod
You're probably correct but when one has about 200 printed checks for a tractor feed printer sitting in a box behind a printer that did work it difficult to want to spend ALL the money to change over. My writing checks by hand is out of the question since with my disability my hand writing is terrible. I already have the laser printer hooked up to print everything else so it was nice to have both type printers set upas I didn't have to switch from paper to checks & vice-verse

RodinNS · Sep 5, 2012

Can't you tear the trac tabs off the sheets and feed them to the laser?

Tx Jim · Sep 5, 2012

(quoted from post at 13:09:00 09/05/12) Can't you tear the trac tabs off the sheets and feed them to the laser?

Yes but I thought you had to set the laser printer up to either print 1 check at a time or 3 at one time. I'm a computer dummy so I don't know how the tract feed checks would work in a laser printer.
Thanks Jim

RodinNS · Sep 5, 2012

Dunno... if yours are just cheque after cheque on the paper then probably not much you can do. The ones I'm familiar with... the cheque is 1/3 of the page and the remainder is the stub/record so each cheque in effect uses one full page. You'd have to look at your printer settings to see if it could print just one cheque... I doubt you could print three separate at once...

Rod

Drill · Sep 5, 2012

Go to the Microsoft windows XP site and see if you can find an updated driver for that printer

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