Networking a printer on XP to a comp with 7

Hey. I am having a lot of trouble networking a printer. I have a printer on an XP box that I'm trying to connect to with a W7 box. I go to Devices and Printers->Add Printer->Find printer by name. The W7 finds the printer but it gives me an error saying there is no driver. HP's website does not have a driver download because it is included with Windows 7. I have connected the printer up the W7 box and got the driver installed and printing. I just tried to use Double Driver driver back up software. I extracted the driver. When the Add a Printer prompts me to locate the folder the driver is in, I do and W7 says "Windows cannot locate a suitable printer driver." The files is called oem12.inf> Can someone help me out please.

 

My situation was the reverse. A Canon IP4000 on a 64 bit W7 desktop, on a wireless network. I wanted to have a 64 bit W7 laptop and two 32 bit XP laptops use that printer as well. No problem adding the IP4000 to the W7 laptop. I just used ADD PRINTER. But when I used ADD PRINTER on one of the XP3 boxes I got the no compatible driver message. So, I had to go to the Canon website to find and install a 32bit Canon XP driver on the XP box. The other XP box already had the Canon driver installed because, years ago, the Canon was hard-wired to it.

I ended up hacking. I copying the contents of C:\Windows\System32\Spool folder from the laptop that worked onto the laptop that did not. Then I redid the ADD PRINTER routine and it worked.

One cautionary note. Be sure that you use the same name for the laptop in all cases.

 

"I suggest going to the HP website and downloading the Vista driver for your specific printer ( obviously 64bit if you have windows 7 64 bit, or 32bit for windows 7 32 ) and install it first before adding the printer over the network