{"id":54,"date":"2009-06-27T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2010-09-23T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T03:12:42","slug":"i-lost-my-printer-installation-disk-can-i-still-use-my-printer-on-a-new-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"I lost my printer installation disk, can I still use my printer on a new computer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">OOPS!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">So you&#8217;ve <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">misplaced\u00a0your printer installation disk eh?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It can happen to anyone. Those pesky disks get lost when you&#8217;re\u00a0moving between business locations,\u00a0someone files it incorrectly\u00a0or it was\u00a0accidently thrown away or placed in the wrong CD case.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<!--more--><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">Whatever the reason, you <strong>don&#8217;t need to buy a new printer<\/strong> or even order a new installation disk from the printer manufacturer.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">All you need\u00a0do is\u00a0download the latest drivers from the manufacturer\u2019s website.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 Look on your\u00a0<\/span>printer, you should be able to see the\u00a0manufacturer&#8217;s name\u00a0and printer type displayed prominently somewhere.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Say\u00a0you have a Hewlett-Packard (HP) printer, you can access their website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hp.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.hp.com<\/a>)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">and at the bottom of the page under the heading \u201cCustomer Support\u201d click on \u201cSoftware and Drivers Download\u201d and then follow the instructions.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">If you do\u00a0want a copy of\u00a0the disk <em>just in case,<\/em> \u00a0you can still contact the manufacturer to have one sent to you.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OOPS! So you&#8217;ve misplaced\u00a0your printer installation disk eh?\u00a0 It can happen to anyone. Those pesky disks get lost when you&#8217;re\u00a0moving between business locations,\u00a0someone files it incorrectly\u00a0or it was\u00a0accidently thrown away or placed in the wrong CD case.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[373],"tags":[12],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bonzamobilecomputerrepairs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}