I have a Windows 7 64 bit, and a HP650C (C2859A), and I have finally been able to print to it. I print black only, so I dont know what happens with colour. ACAD and PDF.
First, the User Account Control must be turned off even if you are an administrator, and to do this:
Click the Windows button on the lower left, type UAC in the search box, click on Change User Account Control settings, slide the bar down to Never notify, all the way down, click OK, restart computer (remember to go back and undo this afterwards).
Get the Windows XP Pro 64 installation CD (you dont need any passwords just the disc). Do exactly what Sam M has written in message 5 above, and install the printer using the drivers on the disk.
Reset your UAC, and restart.
I am using the parallel port off the computer to the printer, and this time it is on LPT1, but when I did it before my computer crashed it was on LPT3.
The 750c driver for xp-64 works!!! You have to turn off UAC, reboot, install driver, turn UAC back on, and restart. We don't have a 750c. We have a 455ca and the 750c driver works better than the 1050!!!!
http://www.adinsightusa.com/Vista_X64_600-650-750-755CM_Driver_PCL.zip
for the required files on the XP64 disk
We are using LDD 2005 & an HP 650C plotter. I recently re-did my computer with Win 7 because it crashed and I decided to take the risk and upgrade. I installed Windows XP mode and LDD works fine. However, I am having a problem downloading my data collector (SDR33) into it now. I'm thinking it might be because Windows 7 installed a serial port driver for Win 7 and not Win XP? I can't figure out what else it could be. Any suggestions are very much appreciated!
It's typically a bad idea to append an unrelated question onto the end of an existing thread.
What usually happens is people start answering the original question again, even though nobody was really interested in reviving the topic. And your unrelated question may get lost in the mix, and go unanswered.
You also tend to get better responses by starting a topic with a name that gives some indication of your problem, such as "Can't link to SDR33 from Win 7 XP Mode". That's a lot more likely to attract attention from someone who can answer your question.
My initial thought is "Why use XP Mode?" I'm pretty sure I've heard of others talk about using 2004/2005 vintage LDD on Win 7 without XP Mode. I think all they had to do was set LDD to run in XP Compatibility mode, but then it worked directly in Win 7 without the Virtual XP.
Thanks for the advice. I fixed it though. Turns out I need to reconfigure the serial port, now it works. As far as running it in Windows 7, I could not get it to work but it's all set up and working fine in XP mode so I'm happy I don't have to spend more time fooling with it.