Need driver for Laserjet 1100 and Win 10

[Mitch8]

I have been unable to locate a driver for the Laserjet 1100 printer which runs on a Win 10 Pro platform. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

tia,

Mitch

[Reskape · Accepted solution]

Hello @Mitch8

Available software for printer can be found here 

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=61179&lang=en&cc=us

There are different versions for your printer you can select from here 

http://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/identify?q=laserjet+1100&tool=s-002#Z7_3054ICK0K8UDA...

I do want to say that the printer its out of support for quite sometime already meaning that most likely there will not be a new software created for this printer since a while bac k

[Mitch8]

Reskape - Thank you for your reply and guidance. I realize it is an old printer, but it has also been the most reliable printer I have ever had, and hate to give it up 🙂  

I have indeed gone to this site before, but the Win 10 OS was not available that I could see. Any suggestions as to which driver I should try?

[Mitch8]

Reskape,

OK, now I feel like the fool. This time when I connected the printer to my system I went through the complete 'find your printer' scenario using the 'my printer is older' selection, and the driver from the OS system found an adequate driver to use...so I'm back in business.

Thanks again for taking your time to help me with this issue I was having.

[james_98188]

Thanks for this!  I've had my HP1100A printer forever, and would hate to have to give it up; it's a GREAT printer!  And the newer ones are physically much larger too.  This has been a main reason I've been resisting updating my Windows 7 Pro computer; and it's starting to show age problems. 

[ronaldo100]

The connection to software does not connect to hp as of today      keep get try again 

also would be nice to know which driver was actually used

[james_98188]

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@ronaldo100 wrote:

The connection to software does not connect to hp as of today      keep get try again 

also would be nice to know which driver was actually used

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I was told that HP has no intention of developing a driver for this printer to support Windows 10.  I'm happy with the printer and will stay with Windows 7 for the foreseeable future.  HP has even stopped offering printer cartridges for this printer, but I've found the aftermarket ones available from Staples to be of acceptable quality. 

[jgeo]

None of the solutions listed worked for my. Any driver I tried was not accepted by windows 10 64. After the dialog to select a driver from a list, and clicking "Have Disk", any folder with HPLJ1100 drivers remained empty.

Then I looked at my old Win7 PC, and identified the folder prnhp001.inf_amd64_neutral_081cf2b90ec9e6d5 with the HP Laserjet 1100 driver files that were placed there by the Windows Upade mechanism, when I installed my printer on Windows 7 years ago. But as the printer has not been updated since, why would those drivers no longer work?

So I copied them to a folder on the new Windows 10 system, and pointed the driver selection dialog "Have Disk" there. And voila! It worked. I got a list with HP printer models that included the LJ 1100. After intallation, everything workded as before on Win7.

It's strange that there is no location where this bunch of files can be downloaded, but find someone with Win7 and you can continue using your printer.