Yes you can install the same printer twice with different printer preferences for each (don’t let you tell otherwise, even from Microsoft employs). But since I searched for an answer my self yesterday and could not find anything reasonable I thought I post my solution here … for future reference …įirst thing first, it’s possible. I know its being a while since this question was raised and I’m sure everyone concerned found its own answer. The reason this is required is so that we can print to one to the feeder and to the tray separately. exe installer from the HP site and that does result in a successful printer being installed, but it won't let you install the same printer twice (stalls on the "insert USB cable now" step - simply won't enable the greyed out "Next" button). Tried installing via Add Printer and that seems to install the printer but it's marked with an error. Tried installing from the CD - but the CD is too old for Windows 7 It'd be good to know how to do it in general, but if it depends on the printer type, then in our case we are trying to make a copy of an HP Laserjet. Googling the answer is hopeless because searching for "copy printer" or "duplicate printer" you get a bunch of posts about "printer copiers" or people complaining about duplicate printers getting created in the background (precisely what I'd like to be able to do) Has anyone been able to copy an existing printer in Windows 7? I know that we were able to do this in XP (not as a direct copy/paste, but by installing the printer twice) but in Windows 7 it doesn't seem to be possible.
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