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I'm trying to use an old GCC Elite 12N B&W laser printer for printing schoolwork and other miscellany on 64 bit Windows 7. The only drivers available are 32 bit. As far as I know, it's not possible to use 32 bit drivers on a 64 bit OS, but is there some sort of generic Postscript driver I could substitute?

If the drivers are, in fact, compatible, could someone suggest a way to modify the INF file so that Windows will recognize it?

Thanks for your help!

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All laser printers support basic PCL5e or even PCL6. If you are only printing basic jobs (no double-sided, no multiple paper sizes), then I would just use any old HP LaserJet driver.

When you add a new printer, choose from the list of built-in drivers and choose HP then choose something like the HP LaserJet 5si (We use this driver at work for programs that manipulate the PCL stream). That will install Windows' standard PCL driver and it should work just fine.

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  • Perfect, I don't need anything more than basic functionality. This works great! Thanks a bunch for your help.
    – user8370
    Aug 28, 2009 at 4:28
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That doesn't appear to be a postscript printer so a postscript driver won't help. You'll need the appropriate drivers. There is no way I know of to load a 32-bit driver onto a 64-bit system. On Windows 7 the printer drivers are run in an isolation process so it may be technically possible to do, but I don't think support for doing so was added to the OS.

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You should be able to use the 32-bit driver. I have not had any problem with my own printer.

At least Vista is capable of knowing how to use the drivers from my experience.

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  • Unfortunately it won't let me. I've tried every form of Have Disk, Install Manually... it finds the INF files but when I try to use them, I get a message that says no drivers were found.
    – user8370
    Aug 25, 2009 at 21:26
  • Maybe you can add it as a legacy hardware? blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/…
    – RiddlerDev
    Aug 25, 2009 at 22:16
  • You can't install a 32-bit driver on a 64-bit OS. Sorry. This just isn't going to work.
    – Steve Rowe
    Aug 26, 2009 at 7:28
  • Have you tried this? I have and it doesn't work. That may have been because the printer had a GDI driver.
    – CAD bloke
    Oct 15, 2009 at 2:33
  • Yep I tried it on mine. That could be possible with the GDI driver though.
    – RiddlerDev
    Oct 27, 2009 at 16:35

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