How install 9015 but NOT driver?

[glnz]

TWO QUESTIONS:

1) How can I connect my new OfficeJet Pro 9015 (1KR42A) to my home network but NOT import ANY drivers or HP programming into my Win 10 Pro 64-bit PC?   I can first try with ethernet cable to my router if that helps, but what exactly do I do?

This model is very aggressive about importing lots of HP stuff into my PC, but I don't want any of it, not even the driver, at least not to start.  I want to see if I can print to the 9015 using an old driver for an OJP 8500.  (See < THIS LINK ON THIS FORUM > to see why I want to do this.  The 8500 drivers have the "Print Preview" in Printing Preferences, which I want; the 9015 drivers LACK this very useful feature.)

2)  If the above #1 does not work, for the 9015, there is an IT basic driver package that (I assume) does not have all the programming junk that HP wants to spray into my PC.  How do I set everything up the first time so that such IT basic driver package is the ONLY set of HP software that gets installed, and not all the other stuff.  What are the steps?

Thanks,

[glnz]

Update - My new initial efforts are going well so far. 

• I powered down the 9015 and disconnected its AC cord.
• I unplugged my home router from the internet by disconnecting its WAN ethernet cable, which was connected to Verizon FIOS.  The router remained on as a router for my home LAN.
• I connected the LAN side of the router to the 9015 by ethernet cable.  Per the 9015 user guide, this will automatically switch off the WiFi on the 9015, and I know that the 9015 grabs tons of unwanted HP programming via WIFi, which I don't want.
• I made sure that my old now-leaking 8500 was still on and connected by cable to the router (but with the print cartridge drawer up so it won't try to clean printer heads and leak more)..
• I powered up the 9015 and waited.
• I followed the 9015 user guide instructions to do two things, from the printer's own touch screen:
  • Restore Factory Defaults
  • Cold Reset to remove all settings
• I noted the printer's new IP address on my LAN - that was easy to find on its small screen - 192.168.1.##.
• Using Firefox on my Win 10 PC, I went to that IP and successfully accessed the 9015's Embedded Web Server.  I adjusted a few minor settings,
• Now, the crux part 1 - I went to Devices and Printers on my Windows 10 Pro 64-bit PC and saw:
  • the icon for my old 8500 (still connected to its original IP port), with the good old name "HP Officejet Pro 8500 A909g Series", and it is the Default printer.
  • an icon for the 9015 but only for its WSD port with a name of "HPFCED** (HP OfficeJet Pro 9010 series)"
  • NO ICON for the 9015 by its LAN IP address - just what I wanted to see !!!
• The crux part 2 - right-clicking the icon for the 8500, I added a TCP/IP port for the 9015's LAN IP address and left that selected.
• I checked Printing Preferences and saw that my old list was still there, and made sure my favorite added Preference was the default (with Print Preview on).
• I have now made many test prints, with all first getting Print Preview as I want, and with the ability to change my Print Preferences as always (my favorites being my saved Preferences for Draft Black & White and Draft Color).  These prints are a bit slower than on my old 8500, but fast enough.  At home, I rarely print many pages at once. 
  • Scan to Network Folder (shared folders on my PCs) cannot be programmed successfully - constant errors - but I know this is because my Win 10 Pro 64-bit logs on WITHOUT a logon password.  Last go-round, I found that if I add a password, this will start to work.  I don;t want to add a password to log on to my PC, but we'll see.
  • However, putting a document on the glass or in the feeder on the 9015 and then scanning from the printer's EWS on my browser using its Scan tab does work.  Note that I first had to turn on Webscan in the EWS's Settings - Security - Administrator Settings.
• I reconnected the WAN side of my router to my FIOS, and all tests continues to go well.
• I have not yet checked fax settings.
• Note that I have not installed ANY programming for the 9015, not even the IT Administrators' Basic Drivers.  As far as I can tell, the only HP programming on my Win 10 PC is what I had gotten a long time ago for my 8500.

I'll post more as I go along.  But looks like I can keep this printer.

Thoughts?

[glnz]

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[glnz]

One trick - on reboot of my Win 10 PC, the printer shows greyed out in Devices and Printers and print jobs do not print.  I found that the problem is in "See What's Printing" - it sets the printer to "Use Printer Offline" on the PC reboot,  Easy to fix.

Also, on reboot of the PC, the new Added Port tends to disappear.  But it's easy to re-add, and I don't reboot my PC often.

However, any thoughts on how to prevent these small glitches on reboot?

Thanks.

[Kumar0307]

@glnz, Welcome to the HP Support Community!

It is recommended to use the HP printer driver to resolve such issues.

If you do not wish to do so, you may install the printer using Windows built-in driver

Refer to this document to know how. Try printing.

Hope this helps! Keep me posted. 

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Have a great day! 

[glnz]

Kumar - Many thanks for your reply.

But may I ask you to re-read my entire thread here?  I do NOT want the normal drivers for the 9015 because they LACK "Print Preview".  I am retaining and re-using the drivers I had for my old OJP 8500 (A909g) because they have "Print Preview".

Three requests:

1)  Are you able to communicate with the HP design engineers and tell them they should bring back "Print Preview"?   (Since the 8500 drivers are working on my 9015 and they give me "Print Preview", HP already has usable code for this.  HP does not have to re-invent this feature, just add the old relevant code lines from the 8500 software to the drivers for the 9015.)

2)  Can you ask them what OTHER model software has "Print Preview" that I might try - maybe a better fit with my new 9015 printer?

3)  Please have a higher-level engineer look at my completely different issue at

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printer-Setup-Software-Drivers/9015-cannot-scan-to-network-folder/m-p/... 

Please report back here.

Thank you.

[glnz]

Kumar - I haven't heard from you.