• The driver downloads on the 32-bit system do not contain the 64-bit drivers to download to Windows 7.
• The 64-bit driver downloads from many of the printer manufacturers come encapsulated in a 64-bit executable file that install the driver while detecting the local printer. These don’t work unless the printer is attached locally. When the driver is encapsulated in 64-bit executable, it can’t be installed on the 32-bit print server.

This is a procedure that has often worked for me when installing network printers and the normal install doesn’t work properly.

• Open “Devices and Printers.”
• Select “Add a printer”.
• Choose “Add Local Printer”.
• Select “Create a New Port” and set the drop down selection to “Local Port”.
• Click Next.
• Windows will display a small dialogue box asking for a “port name”.
  Key in: \\computer_name\printer_name
  where
  • computer_name is the name (or ip address) of the network computer with the printer attached.
  • printer_name is the share name of the printer on the network computer.
• Click OK.
• Windows will show a list of printer manufacturers and models. Select your printer manufacturer and the printer model from the list. If your specific printer isn’t shown, you can click on “Windows Update” to obtain the latest list of printers or “Have Disk” and browse to the folder where you have the unpacked drivers for your printer.

  If you still can’t find the driver, but one from a similar model is listed, you can try it.

This procedure should also allow you to print to any Windows Print Server where the Windows 7 64-bit drivers have not previously been installed. This procedure does depend on the ability to obtain a driver for 64-bit Windows 7.