Help, Win7 and my HP4000 laserjet printer

[Larry Fisk]

My first step would be to visit
www.support.hp.com and download the
Win7 drivers for the printer, if they are available

 

[Nobammer]

I have a new desktop and a new laptop with windows 7 and they don't like
my HP 4000 laser jet printer. How can I get it to work?

 

[Annie Woughman]

I have a new desktop and a new laptop with windows 7 and they don't like
my HP 4000 laser jet printer. How can I get it to work?

Larry is right about visiting the HP site. They now have "universal print
drivers" that basically let older printers work with newer machines. I had
a horrible time getting my 64 bit Vista (HP) laptop to print from my HP 1300
laser jet printer until I found and installed the universal driver. (You
would think that an HP PC would come already loaded with driver for HP
printers.

 

[SC Tom]

Larry is right about visiting the HP site. They now have "universal print
drivers" that basically let older printers work with newer machines. I
had a horrible time getting my 64 bit Vista (HP) laptop to print from my
HP 1300 laser jet printer until I found and installed the universal
driver.

(You would think that an HP PC would come already loaded with driver for
HP printers.

And why would that be? With the thousands of HP printers out there, just
think of the wasted space to have drivers for every laserjet, deskjet,
inkjet, plotter, etc. just for the past 5 years. And who says an HP PC owner
is going to buy an HP printer?

The "universal" drivers are bare-bones, stripped down drivers that barely do
anything but print. I had a 2 year old HP deskjet when XP came out. Neither
XP nor HP had the full driver for it any more, and the ME one wouldn't work
with XP. I waited about a year to see if there would be anything for it, but
no, just the universal one. I ended up buying a new printer since the
deskjet would only sporadically work correctly after that. I was surprised
to see that my HP all-in-one has Win7 drivers.

SC Tom

 

[Trev]

And why would that be? With the thousands of HP printers out there, just
think of the wasted space to have drivers for every laserjet, deskjet,
inkjet, plotter, etc. just for the past 5 years. And who says an HP PC
owner is going to buy an HP printer?

The "universal" drivers are bare-bones, stripped down drivers that barely
do anything but print. I had a 2 year old HP deskjet when XP came out.
Neither XP nor HP had the full driver for it any more, and the ME one
wouldn't work with XP. I waited about a year to see if there would be
anything for it, but no, just the universal one. I ended up buying a new
printer since the deskjet would only sporadically work correctly after
that. I was surprised to see that my HP all-in-one has Win7 drivers.

SC Tom

Its often Cheaper to buy a new printer then a set of inks Any way. But I'm
disappointed in the fact my HP 4890 scanner Does not have drivers other then
the basic For Win 7 as this means it can no longer scan transparencies and
film. Its not old and it was not cheap.. So I have to use the laptop and XP
to scan sldies.

 

[SC Tom]

Its often Cheaper to buy a new printer then a set of inks Any way. But I'm
disappointed in the fact my HP 4890 scanner Does not have drivers other
then the basic For Win 7 as this means it can no longer scan
transparencies and film. Its not old and it was not cheap.. So I have to
use the laptop and XP to scan sldies.

That's true- quite often you can catch a Lexmark on sale for $40, and the
black/color twin pack goes for about the same or a little more.
The 4890 is 3 years old, which is older than my deskjet was at the time XP
came out. Have you tried re-installing the Vista full package drivers? Maybe
they'll work (no guarantees).

SC Tom

 

[Trev]

That's true- quite often you can catch a Lexmark on sale for $40, and the
black/color twin pack goes for about the same or a little more.
The 4890 is 3 years old, which is older than my deskjet was at the time XP
came out. Have you tried re-installing the Vista full package drivers?
Maybe they'll work (no guarantees).

SC Tom

It Will not load the vista drivers as The installer is not compatible