How to Add an Old USB Printer?

[jclarkw]

I have an HP LaserJet 1012 USB printer that worked OK under Windows 7.  There appears to be no up-to-date driver for it to work with my new Windows 10 Pro OS.  Am I out of luck, or is there a generic print driver somewhere that might be made to work?

Or might one of the drivers for older Windows versions be made to work under Win10?

In either case I would need a little hand-holding to find, and perhaps to install, the needed driver.  I just went through the Win10 menus to install a printer and came up dry... -- JCW2

[ALS-77]

I think the best thing to use would be a Universal Printer Driver. This should work for setup for most any printer.

Here's a link to try:

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-universal-print-driver-series-for-windows/503548...

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[east2100 · Accepted solution]

Try to use the driver of HP LaserJet 1015 if you can find it in Win10.

If there's not then you have to use HP UPD PCL5.

https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/PRINTER/HP/HP-Universal-Print-Driver-PCL5-61020062-64-bit.shtml

Before you install the driver make sure the connected port must be DOT4_001 but not USB001.

It should be DOT4_001 if Win10 didn't prepare it for your installation then find it from HP and download and install it first.