driver for the hp laserjet 1000 to windows 7

[Ant_in_OZ]

All

I have just succesfully found a solution to making the laser jet 1000 work under windows 7 64bit

The trick  is  that you need a GDI driver  and  finding a supplier ( other than HP ) who has built one.


Go to the following link and download the windows 7  64 bit driver for the following printer

http://onyxftp.mykonicaminolta.com/download/Search.aspx?ht=

search desktop printer -> magicolor 2430DL ->drivers -> windows 7 64bit

KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 2430DL

install the drivers

Add the printer as you would normally and then
under printer properties select advanced and under print processor select winprint raw

The reason this works is that this printer uses the same hardware GDI engine as the lasjet 1000

Enjoy

Anthony

[Ant_in_OZ]

The way I have it set up is that my laserjet 1000 is plugged into a seperate old PC running windows 2000 with laserjet 1000 drivers loaded on it as its shared by various household computer ranging from Macbook to XP and now windows7.

I connect to it on windows 7 by adding a local printer and direct mapping it by creating a new port and putting in the box

\\servername or ip address\printersharename

i.e

\\\Printerserver\Laserjet1000

set up the properties as I precviously described and it works fine

Note direct USB connection does not work

If I have some time to kill , I'll see if I can get the direct USB to work

Anthony.

[Ant_in_OZ]

The way I have it set up is that my laserjet 1000 is plugged into a seperate old PC running windows 2000 with laserjet 1000 drivers loaded on it as its shared by various household computer ranging from Macbook to XP and now windows7.

I connect to it on windows 7 by adding a local printer and direct mapping it by creating a new port and putting in the box

\\servername or ip address\printersharename

i.e

\\\Printerserver\Laserjet1000

set up the properties as I precviously described and it works fine

Note direct USB connection does not work

If I have some time to kill , I'll see if I can get the direct USB to work

Anthony.

[Ant_in_OZ]

Turns out this fix is not as good as I thought

It prints text ok but leaves out images.

So in summary

this is a partial solution.

As the Konica Minolta series was th only other similiar printer I am aware of, I would recommned people abandon this printer. I may get around to investigating further but the time and effort to fix this is probably not worth it given the cost of a replacement printer

[dvwtwo]

Anthony:

I am attempting to use your suggestion re the Minolta drivers.  You say "Install the printer as you would normally."  Did you install a Minolta printer or the HP 1000?  I have the disc from the LaserJet 1000 and it does install (without the driver, of course).n  Thanks for researching this problem.   I too have considered throwing in the towel and purchasing another printer.  It will NOT be an HP.

dvwtwo

[Kenknutzen]

This works! After searching for a year for an answer to this problem (I love the laserjet 1000), your remarks resurrected my printer!  I was elated since I was considering giving it away since there appeared to be no solution as several others have concluded.  But there is a solution!   Thanks so, so much. Ken

[plow7man]

I have a laserjet 1012 and am confused. If you go to the HP site, it says Win 7 does not have drivers built in, but there are drivers available on the HP site. If you go to the area they point you to, the LJ 1012 is not listed. Anybody have an answer because I want to use my LJ 1012 with my Windows 7 machine?

[stevenkant]

Thanks for the tip. When I tried this, the computer hands while it waits to recognize the USB connection from the printer. THe printer is working (from other computers).  Any ideas? 

[marilazar]

Hi Anthony. I'm new in the forum and i have the same problem with my lj1000. I tried what you've said but i still can not print. While the installation he asked about the printer device that seems not to be seen. I canceled the installation but i can see the Minolta and yes i can send something to be print but without any luck. I don't know if there is something more that i didn't do. Any help? Thanks.

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Ant_in_OZ wrote:

All

I have just succesfully found a solution to making the laser jet 1000 work under windows 7 64bit

The trick  is  that you need a GDI driver  and  finding a supplier ( other than HP ) who has built one.


Go to the following link and download the windows 7  64 bit driver for the following printer

http://onyxftp.mykonicaminolta.com/download/Search.aspx?ht=

search desktop printer -> magicolor 2430DL ->drivers -> windows 7 64bit

KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 2430DL

install the drivers

Add the printer as you would normally and then
under printer properties select advanced and under print processor select winprint raw

The reason this works is that this printer uses the same hardware GDI engine as the lasjet 1000

Enjoy

Anthony

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[wingpilot1]

I did buy another printer and it was not HP and my next computer will not be HP.

[Tezza1971]

Okay I read this thread and so I came up with a different solution...

• VirtualBox.org (free software) allowed me to create a virtual machine on my Windows 7 (64bit) machine.
• I created the VM with 168MB ram and 4GB hdd (my system is 8GB ram and 1.5tb hdd). I used the recomendations that VBox made for a Win2k guest OS.
• I had to change the networking mode of the VM to "host only" rather than "NAT" which is the default. Needed this to get windows file sharing working with no fuss. I installed Win2k and created a share called c:\dropbox and set permissions so that everyone could write to it.
• I downloaded and extracted the HP "host only" driver for the Laser Jet to c:\lj1000hb on the guest OS (Win2k).
• I lugged in the printer, but I had problems getting my Windows 7 host OS to recognise the VBox USB driver. This problem was fixed by running VBox as Administrator. See here for the issue http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=163495#p163495
• Right clicked on the USB icon and told it to mount the Laser Jet. Win2k detected the printer, and I progressed to "Have Disk..." button and pointed it to the c:\lj1000hb folder. Printer installed successfully.
• I shared the printer from the Win2k guest OS.
• Could not get Windows 7 to "Connect..." to the printer even though it could see the share on the network.
• I installed Acrobat Reader 5 from this location
• http://www.oldversion.com/download_Acrobat_Reader_5.1.html
• I figured out that you can get a PDF printed by using this command
• C:\>"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" /p /h "C:\dropbox\Location Reference.pdf" which is the command-line equivilant of right clicking on a PDF file and selecting "print" instead of the default "open" action.
• I'm hosting my VM on windows 7 (64) and I edited my registry registry and inserted the command line as a string value to an entry in
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
  "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" startvm Dinky
  Where "Dinky" is the name of my virtual box VM

okay so this is painful initially, and a bit of a pain to have to manually print PDFs.But at least I can print

I use "print to PDF" using PDF creator printer driver http://www.pdfforge.org/download and then when it asks you to save it, just put it in the drop box.

I can use c:\dropbox as a watch folder. I plan on coming up with an automates solution for that - even if it means I have to write a windows service (which I have done before).