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onebadhobbit
December 28th, 2012, 11:45 PM
Hello everyone. Looking a some new computers, but afraid to take the step lest they are not compatible. Anyone experienced in hooking a windows 8 machine up to any of the following printers: Shinko s2145, Sony UPDR200, and DNP DSRX1. Your advice would be greatly appreciated.

Warmest regards.
apples
December 29th, 2012, 03:58 PM
The DNP won't work. They're going to release new drivers in February, which probably means April. Apparantly there is a work around :-

http://imagingspectrum.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/How-to-disable-digital-signature-enforcement-on-Win8-drivers.pdf
onebadhobbit
December 29th, 2012, 07:29 PM
Thanks Apples. That is very helpful. Do you know what the situation with the Sony UPDR200 is?
BoothThis
January 8th, 2013, 10:28 PM
Best I found was to unplug the printer from the computer, open to Windows 8, open a command prompt, Type: { shutdown -o -r -t 0 } (no brackets), on restart, choose to disable driver signature enforcement. Install drivers and then reboot. Plug in printer and it "should" find the printer and configure the driver. Worked for me with a UP-DR200