My printer is an HP laserjet P2015. In Vista, I had an HP postscript plugnplay driver that worked great, but HP provided Microsoft with the wrong Windows 7 driver for this printer. The driver in W7 is a PCL6 Universal driver, and though it works, it doesn't work well.
When I clean installed W7, W7 installed my printer and the universal driver that came with W7. I tried to "Add a printer" so I could try my old vista driver, but W7 wants to automatically add that universal driver.
Is there a way to "Add a printer" with my own choice of drivers?
Added new Win 7 PC to home network with HP LaserJet P2015 connect to XP PC via USB.Using Win 7 Add Printer wizard, Win 7 PC sees the printer but gives missing driver error. 'Windoes cannot find a driver on the network"On HP site I cannot find a win 7 driver. Say N/A <as of Sept 2009>
I installed a local printer and left it running because it was taking ages searching Windows 7.
It is an HP Laserjet P2015 on a USB port and seems ok and setup correctly because it is in my Printers folder as default.
However whenever I try printing something, I see the printer in the printer dialog and click ok - immediately it pops up this weird new dialog box as if it wants me to select the printer again...
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I do not know what to enter - my printer is not a network printer, it cannot find the printer and I cannot cancel the dialog box.
When I kill the word task, I get a message saying the doc has been sent to the printer, but nothing is sent to the printer.
I had trouble finding how to get my HP Laserjet 4 printer to work in Windows 7.
My research indicates it would run in Vista using built in drivers, but I didn't have or use Vista. I also tried driversguide, and HP site just says "supported"
When I used one of the available earleir drivers I always get the error message:
"W2 INVALID PERS"
OK Solved it now. Lots of drivers in a package for HP laserjets. Go to the Windows Update page and download the package; here: Microsoft Update Catalog
My win 7 machine having crashed yet again and had a trip to the repairers, I have lost the driver, which I remember spending about a month to try and get it going, as HP no longer supports this perfectly good laser. I see no reason to junk a perfectly good printer ( especially as I still have thrre new toner cartridges - not cheap!)
This printer is a HP Laserjet 2600n. Tryed my software no good, worked fine under XP and Vista.Anyone else have problem installing? How did you get it to work I'm frustrated been fighting this since yesterday. HP has no windows 7 driver for 2600n Also this printer is not listed on the add printer where you install your printer and have to pic it off thier list.
i have recently used windows 7 but my HP LASERJET 1000 printer is not working, my driver is not supported, what can i do? is any new driver available now for my printer to work on WINDOWS 7?
I have had a HP 5L for years. Love it, it runs like a tank and the ink is cheep. However I have always had driver problems. When I got XP it would print on the upper 3/4 of the page on one sheet and the lower part on a second sheet. I read that if you used an Epson driver (I don't remember which one) it would work and sure enough it did. Now I have Windows 7 which has a built in driver for the 5L. It works fine with Word but when i print from the web or my emails it splits the page the same way as it did on XP (top 3/4 of the page on first sheet off paper and the bottom 1/4 on a second sheet of paper.)
