rbamberg Posted August 24, 2013 Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 I have a shared HP 5610 printer connected (by USB) to a Windows 8 desktop, which in turn is connected to a wireless router. I access that printer through the router from a Windows 7 laptop . . . well, I did until last week. That printer was removed from my printers list. When I "add a printer" on the Windows 7 machine, it sees the shared printer connected to the desktop. But, when I choose that printer I get an error message "Windows cannot connect to the printer. Unable to find a core driver package that is required by the printer driver package." I've made no changes to either system except for automatic Windows updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted August 24, 2013 Report Share Posted August 24, 2013 If the printer was removed from the list, the driver(s) was/were probably left orphaned with no associations (corrupt/broke).How was the printer initially installed on the WIN7 machine?Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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