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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Printer Drivers in 3.0
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Date: 26 Oct 90 12:33:47 GMT
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In article <41345@cci632.UUCP> lab@cci632.UUCP (Len Bauer) writes:
>
>  Windows 3.0 was installed for me, by Gateway, when I bought their machine.
>I am now trying to add my Panasonic printer to Windows, but when I view the 
>list of available printer drivers, I only have the 'Generic/ Text only' driver.
>
>  In my documentation and also in a third party book, I am led to believe that 
>more drivers than the Generic one, are supplied by Windows.  Is this true, or
>am I hallucinating?  

Either you're not looking in the right place or Gateway fiddled with the
SETUP.INI file.

To install a new printer driver click on the sequence:

  MAIN -> CONTROL PANEL -> PRINTERS

This will bring up the PRINTERS dialog box, which will show  a list titled
"Installed Printers:" which in your case apparently shows only the generic
driver.  Click the box marked "_Add Printer >>" and you should get a list
of all the printers supported by the WIN3 product.  Select the one you
want to add and click the "_Install..." box, insert the proper disk
when requested, and you're done.

If the box titled "_List of Printers:" doesn't show anything but the generic
driver then I suspect that your SETUP.INI file was modified by somebody.
The fastest thing to do is to go back and completely reinstall Windows from
the distribution diskettes.  (I *hope* that Gateway gave you the diskettes;
without them you can't install the other drivers.)

Joe  Morris