drivershp-laserjetwindows 7
I know that HP has no intention of providing driver support for older model printers (their web site solution is telling me to buy a new printer).
However, is there a work-around that will allow me to use the HP LJ 1000 printer in Windows 7 (64bit)? What about a "generic" driver for the LaserJet? Any suggestions? Will I need to trick Windows into accepting the printer?
Download the required Windows 7 32bit or 64bit HP Universal Printer Driver PCL6 (UPD) from the HP Website.
Install the driver using “Traditional mode”.
Go to “Printer Properties” -> “Device Settings” of the printer and scroll to the bottom.
Change “Device Type” setting from “Automatic” to “Color”
The "Color" tab will now be available under Printing Preferences of the printer.
Additional Information:
If you are sharing the USB printer over your network specifically for Windows 7 clients, you have to change the same “Device Type” setting as above for each client’s printer driver to enable colour printing to the shared printer.
You will have to create a new port with the printer settings, but make sure the port name is different. If the port names are the same it will group them, changing the port name will solve your issue.
Best Answer
Well, I found a solution posted in Driver needed: Hewlett Packard (HP) HP Laserjet 1000 Series (Windows XP Professional x64) (USB).
But you are not going to like it.
Pretty much the rundown is that Hewlett-Packard never built a 64-bit driver base for this and several other printers that are host controlled. So the solution is to either setup the printer on a 32-bit machine, use settings to print from DOS, and then share it. From the Windows Vista/Windows 7 machine connect to the share and install the HP 1100 driver provided in the printer list.
OR
Install the VirtualBox software provided in the links on that forum on your 64-bit box. Then install the printer in the 32-bit environment, and set it up as a share. Connect to the internally shared printer on the VirtualBox instance that is running on your 64-bit box.
Best of luck in this endeavor.