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You would need printer drivers written for ARM. Drivers cannot run in emulation mode. Unless it’s a really old unsupported device, I would be surprised if they were not available yet.
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John
It's a copier which we leased two years ago, and I check Sharp website all the time. Oddly, I can get the scanner to be recognized but not the printer when it comes to installing through Add a printer in Windows. It does install the scanner driver. The Sharp MFP software for the copier will download and go through the install process. It will identify that I have Windows 11 and then it pops up that it is an unsupported OS. There are no ARM compatible drivers that I have been able to locate and I put the local Sharp tech support through the ringer trying to help me. Honestly, I think I knew more than they did at the time. As noted, I can print through the Sharpdesk Mobile app in the Windows store, but it is limited in what features the copier actually has available to use, that would usually be available to me in the printer settings. If I really need to print something with more options, I pull out my Surface Pro Laptop 3.
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If your printer is supported by a Windows printer driver, (very likely) you still might not be able to install it if the manufacturer has not written an arm specific installer program.
network printers can be a little tricky sometimes when installing drivers. An old trick that I have used before was too plugged the printer into a USB port on the computer, let plug-in play detect the printer, and it should automatically install whatever generic drivers that Microsoft has available.
the following link says basically the same thing
If that doesn’t work, you may just be out of luck. At least until the manufacturer writes an ARM specific installer file. But this just serves as an example, if you are adopting a brand new platform some things are just not going to work.
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