Author: Uzi Paz (for e-mail contact: user is uzipaz and domain ispoboxes.com)
Date: 9 Apr 2001

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The text below is taken from an answer that I gave in Help-Net.

In principle, the place to get drivers for your hardware, are the sites
of the companies that produce the hardware products (either web sites
http://www.* or ftp sites ftp://ftp.* where asterisk comes for the name
of the site). If there is a site map, or an option to search the site, it might
in some cases lead you into the section where they offer drivers.

There are a few sites which deal with drivers:
http://www.windrivers.com
http://www.drivershq.com

The following ones I didn't check thoroughly but you might:
http://www.driverzone.com
http://www.pcdrivers.com
http://www.worldowindows.com  
http://www.mrdriver.com
http://www.driverguide.com
http://www.helpdrivers.com

If you find the sites of the hardware companies, but don't find the
drivers there, you should consider asking the support address (usually
there is one, either under "Contacts" or under "Support", in the site of
your hardware company.
You may also consult the power search on Google's Usenet archive (formerly Deja)
on http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search, to see if there were some discussions
about that driver on the Usenet newsgroups. If you don't find asolution there,
you may still find people who have/had the same problems and may join
forces with them.
You may of course, use any search engine in your efforts. Keywords, such as "driver", the hardware type (e.g. printer, scanner, etc.) the model of the hardware device is an important keyword, but you should know that some search engines, treat words separated by a hyphen as separate words, and usually there are some manners of writing models names (e.g. with or without blanks between parts of the models). You don't have to use all keywords.