Laserjet 1320 printer at 1200 DPI?

[David Arnstein]

I have a Hewlett Packard Laserjet 1320 monochrome laser printer. While
I had Microsoft Windows XP, this printer operated very nicely at 1200
DPI (dots per inch).

After I swapped out Windows XP for Windows 7, I had trouble with this
printer. I installed the "universal" PCL5 print driver recommended by
the HP support web pile. Verily, and my printer worked again. But it
only gives me 600 DPI. No option for higher density in the printer setup
dialog.

I also lost the ability to print Postscript with this printer. No solution
recommended by the HP support web pile.

The HP user forums provide only noise. Has anyone here found a solution?
I mean, besides avoiding HP products.

 

[ray]

I have a Hewlett Packard Laserjet 1320 monochrome laser printer. While I
had Microsoft Windows XP, this printer operated very nicely at 1200 DPI
(dots per inch).

After I swapped out Windows XP for Windows 7, I had trouble with this
printer. I installed the "universal" PCL5 print driver recommended by
the HP support web pile. Verily, and my printer worked again. But it
only gives me 600 DPI. No option for higher density in the printer setup
dialog.

I also lost the ability to print Postscript with this printer. No
solution recommended by the HP support web pile.

The HP user forums provide only noise. Has anyone here found a solution?
I mean, besides avoiding HP products.

I seem to recall that Adobe used to have a generic PS driver - but that's
been a while. You could always attach the printer to a Linux print server.

 

[Dennis Pack]

David:
Try the drivers listed at
"http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?lang=
en&cc=us&prodNameId=410624&taskId=135&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId
=410622&lang=en&cc=us&submit=Go%20Â".
for drivers for your printer. There are other models listed for the LaserJet
1320 at http://www.hp.com/#Support. Have a great day.
--
Dennis Pack
Win-7 Enterprise x64, Win-7 Professional x64.

I have a Hewlett Packard Laserjet 1320 monochrome laser printer. While
I had Microsoft Windows XP, this printer operated very nicely at 1200
DPI (dots per inch).

After I swapped out Windows XP for Windows 7, I had trouble with this
printer. I installed the "universal" PCL5 print driver recommended by
the HP support web pile. Verily, and my printer worked again. But it
only gives me 600 DPI. No option for higher density in the printer setup
dialog.

I also lost the ability to print Postscript with this printer. No solution
recommended by the HP support web pile.

The HP user forums provide only noise. Has anyone here found a solution?
I mean, besides avoiding HP products.
--
David Arnstein (00)
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[ray]

What a stupid recommendation.

Yeah. It's always stupid to make things WORK.

 

[Trev]

I have a Hewlett Packard Laserjet 1320 monochrome laser printer. While
I had Microsoft Windows XP, this printer operated very nicely at 1200
DPI (dots per inch).

After I swapped out Windows XP for Windows 7, I had trouble with this
printer. I installed the "universal" PCL5 print driver recommended by
the HP support web pile. Verily, and my printer worked again. But it
only gives me 600 DPI. No option for higher density in the printer setup
dialog.

I also lost the ability to print Postscript with this printer. No solution
recommended by the HP support web pile.

The HP user forums provide only noise. Has anyone here found a solution?
I mean, besides avoiding HP products.

Install the latest driver you can get Maybe Vista In compatibility mode
http://www.trevorbowden.co.uk/Win7compatmode.html

 

[gordito995]

I also have this printer. I finally gave up and installed the PCL6 driver. I
don't believe that there are any problems printing postscript. Also, this
driver allows you to designate two sided printing. I could not find a way to
do that in the universal driver.

Gordo

 

[ray]

You actually think your advice was practical? Or correct? Or even
doable? Think again...if that's possible.

Sure it's doable. Yes, it is correct. It's obviously practical.

 

[GreyCloud]

I have a Hewlett Packard Laserjet 1320 monochrome laser printer. While
I had Microsoft Windows XP, this printer operated very nicely at 1200
DPI (dots per inch).

After I swapped out Windows XP for Windows 7, I had trouble with this
printer. I installed the "universal" PCL5 print driver recommended by
the HP support web pile. Verily, and my printer worked again. But it
only gives me 600 DPI. No option for higher density in the printer setup
dialog.

I also lost the ability to print Postscript with this printer. No solution
recommended by the HP support web pile.

The HP user forums provide only noise. Has anyone here found a solution?
I mean, besides avoiding HP products.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...prodSeriesId=410622&lang=en&cc=us&submit=Go »

Now, which version of win7 are you using? 32-bit or 64-bit? Then select
the os and download your driver.

 

[Death]

David:
Try the drivers listed at
"http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?lang=
en&cc=us&prodNameId=410624&taskId=135&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId
=410622&lang=en&cc=us&submit=Go%20Â".
for drivers for your printer. There are other models listed for the LaserJet
1320 at http://www.hp.com/#Support. Have a great day.

I hate to say this, but you can't seem to configure NOD32 to tag your
message less than 3 times.
Or, are you advertising for that POS AV that is scanning text messages
for no reason other for than free ads by users whom couldn't configure a
square out of a 4x4x4 box?

 

[David Arnstein]

Install the latest driver you can get Maybe Vista In compatibility mode
http://www.trevorbowden.co.uk/Win7compatmode.html

Thanks to Trevor and Frank for this solution. I was able to install the
Vista postscript driver and I am getting good results.

I did have to learn something about Windows 7 to go down this path
though. Trevor's web page is a nice essay on getting an obsolete installer
program to work. But this method does not help with the HP Vista software.
The reason is that all the HP Vista software does is to unpack a collection
of files onto the computer's disk drive. None of the unpacked files are
installer programs themselves. They are DLLs, INFs, and CABs. So Trevor's
method does not apply.

What I did was to go into Windows Device Manager and uninistall my HP
Laserjet 1320 printer from there. Then I used Device Manager to "add
legacy hardware." I also specified "Windows Vista service pack 2"
compatibility. Finally, I used the "have disk" option to point Windows
Device Manger directly to the files that were unpacked (previous
paragraph). This worked for me.

Now I have 1200 DPI printing, Postscript, and double-sided printing
again!

There is one irritation to be aware of. After I got everything working,
I ran Windows Update. It offered to install an update for the printer.
I allowed this, and it was a mistake. Windows Update downloaded some
new files and then failed to install them. I believe that now my local
Windows Update folder is permanently saddled with a collection of files
that cannot be installed. For anyone who goes down this path, avoid this
please.