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Printer Driver

15 years ago

I have an H.P. P 1100 Printer does everything I desire including double side printing, works great, but I recently updated computers and now have Vista Operating System, my dilema:Looking for a site that bootlegs printer drivers if available, H. P. no longer supports my jewel P 1100.

Thanks for any help you can provide other than throw my P 1100 in the trash. Ha!

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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
15 years ago
I would go to the HP site enter the model number and go to that page to see if perhaps they have released a vista upgrade for that printer if you find nothing there I would enter into a chat there with an HP tech and ask them if there is a vista upgrade available for that printer, they may have to email it to you. If they do not ask them if they know of any generic drivers available that would work.

At the driver sites online I am finding version 3.5 is that the driver version you have? it may be they did release a newer one than the original that might work.
A word of caution if you do download a driver from anywhere be sure to right click and run your virus scanner on that file before opening it on your pc.

In addition I have found this blog article that seems to work going by replies on forums I looked at. Definitely seems worth a try.
The HP LaserJet blog by Vince Ferraro
This was a quote reply to someone using the same exact printer you are using
"Hi
this blog post by Vince Ferraro has some good info about the drivers. If you install your printer as HP deskjet 1120c (add a new printer) it will print text and websites try a test page and see."
The HP LaserJet blog by Vince Ferraro
DA_Mccoy
15 years ago
If all else fails may I suggest you try to just install it and allow Vista to use what it feels is the appropriate driver from its .inf file. This was a concern for me when I purchased my Vista system two years ago.

HP did not release an updated driver for my 5650 printer. They did suggest trying as I reported along with the alert that if the install was successful not all features may work. I tried it and everything works fine.

DA
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That is what I've already done. It's what I mean when I said I didn't find any help from help and support. I try to get this fixed, get frustrated and shut down. When I try again, I've forgotten what I've done, so I do it again. I've done all those steps many times. I'm surprised that getting a router to work, setting up the home network, has been so difficult. Many pages of instructions printed out, many hand written, which is difficult for me. Have laptop accessing internet, which is good. Am just trying to share the printer that is plugged into home computer with XP. If this is not possible, I wish someone would tell me and I can go on to something else. I have no formal training on computers. Still a lot I see on here that I have no idea what is it, what it does, but I can read it. Like reading the "services" in control panel. I've been trying to get this to work for several weeks. I just noticed in sharing and network, that it only shows the laptop(Vista) router and internet. Then I hit "map network" and did not get the home (XP) computer to show. Have used or performed all steps shown in Vista to get this to work and it does not. HP website states that my old psc 950 driver is already installed onto Vista. I don't know what to do next. I'm frazzled. Thanks bob414 for the suggestion.
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slim_2
Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks ravencajun and damccoy the info you recommended was very helpful, I downloaded the deskjet 1120C driver from HP and my printer works except double sided printing, Surely I will be able to locate a driver with the Dbl. sided feature. Also one of you mentioned the 3.5 ver. driver, I really don't know what I have except it is the original furnished with the P 1100. Where might I find the 3.5 it might do the trick? Thanks again for your help. This site is the greatest.
slim_2
Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks the info you recommended was very helpful, I downloaded the 1120c driver from HP and my printer works except for dbl. sided printing, I am looking for a driver now that will support the Dbl. side printing. Thanks again for taking the time to answer. This site is the greatest!

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