Windows 11 Drivers for HP Photosmart C4380

[TomA9]

I am unable to get my HP Photosmart C4380 printer to work with my new laptop that has Windows 11. Windows cannot find the driver and nor can I. From looking at this board, I can see that there is a user called FerRX who seems to be posting links to the driver, however none of the links work for me when I click on them.

I have read this thread: HP Photosmart C4380 Printer Driver - HP Support Community - 8414933, but I cannot get the fixes mentioned to work.

Please can someone let me know where I can find the driver? Thanks.

[ferRX · Accepted solution]

Hi @TomA9 

Please try the driver download from the next link,

• >> Photosmart C4380 – driver software – Windows

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Best regards,

ferRX.

[TomA9]

Thank you @FerRX,

That's great that I now have the driver as I can continue to use a printer that is working perfectly well. It's very disappointing that HP don't make this driver freely available to download from their official website. Failure to provide support for their products, even though they work perfectly well, just because they are 'old', looks like an attempt to get me to buy a new product when I don't need to. It is also very poor from the point of view of sustainability. It appears to be the same problem when it comes to ink cartridges.

When it does come time to buy a new printer, I won't be buying an HP. Ironically, this is not because I am unhappy with my current HP product (I think it works very well), it's because I don't trust HP to keep supporting the product. I believe they will simply stop supporting the product when they deem it is too 'old' and try to force me to buy a new product.

Oh well.