Lexmark Z640 driver problem with Vista

[Hodsocks]

I don't know if any of you guys can help, Situation so far is new computer, new printer, drivers on CD for printer not working with vista. I have downloaded Vista driver from Lexmark site and installed them and they seemed to install Ok. The problem I am now having is that if I go to printers in control panel the printer shows up as "ready", as soon as I ask it to print a test page the printer goes offline and won't print, no error message, nothing. I have checked USB connections and they are Ok, I have tried to sort it out on the Lexmark site but it is just so painfully slow I gave up with it, hoping you guys can help.

My personal experience with Vista are not good so far, admittedly I have experience of only 5 machines, but 3 had problems with drivers and the other 2 crashed and would not boot into windows.
All the machines I am building at the moment are with XP because I cannot recommend Vista at the moment.

 

[Hodsocks]

I think I have finally got the answer, after speaking to a techie at Lexmark there is a patch for this at ftp://ftp.lexmark.com/driver/inkjet_drivers/temp/640/640Clean.exe.
There is nothing on the website to point to this file though I had to call them to get it.

 

[sad_daemon]

The File has moved!

You have to go to a new file location. I spent several days and about an hour on the phone with tech support before I figured it out.

 

[sad_daemon]

The link has moved!

Sorry, I must post three times before they will let me put a link into the message.

 

[sad_daemon]

The link has moved.

See below for valueable information.

 

[sad_daemon]

ftp://ftp.lexmark.com/driver/inkjet_drivers/Cleanup/vistaclean640.exe

ftp://ftp.lexmark.com/driver/inkjet_drivers/Cleanup/vistaclean640.exe