laserjet 3300 and windows 11

[EdLas]

I have a Laserjet 3330 pcl 5. is it even possible to use on Windows 11?

[Repairatrooper]

According to the UPD compatibility guide your printer should work with the current Universal printer driver under PCL6. https://support.hp.com/lv-en/document/ish_4952109-2831856-16

This will give you printing capability, it would appear that you will not have scanning functionality however from HP but you could try Windows Fax and Scan to see if it will recognize the scanner portion.

[BeemerBiker]

According to this article PCL6 is backwards compatible to PCL5 except in a few areas that are not explained.

The original universal drivers for PCL5 are no longer at HP but they are at the Wayback or Archive machine.


64bit code is here but not directly downloadable

32bit code is here but not directly downloadable

When you click on the above a calendar will show up and if the driver is still available it will be highlighted in blue.
As of July, 2024 it was present and is 14mb in size. That is too large to attached to this post, sorry.

Try the driver  @Repairatrooper mentioned before doing the pcl5 from the wayback machine.

[EdLas]

Thank you so much for the feedback. After many hours
of trial and error, I was finally able to access the printer
from my new Windows 11 laptop. Your information
put me on the right track. I'm not quite sure, what I did right,
what I did wrong. Regardless, I am seeing for Printers:
"HP Universal Printing PCL6", "HP Universal Printing PCL6 (Copy 2)",
and "HP Universal Printing PCL6 (Copy 3)". Copy 3 is the only one that works.
I would like to clean-up(get rid of the first 2, but I am reluctant that
"removing" them right affect Copy 3. Any thoughts on that? Thank you!

[BeemerBiker]

You can remove those unwanted extra printers as long as you don't delete the driver when you remove the printer.

Alternately you could rename them and make changes in their properties 

For example if you are frequently printing a certain type of card stock (paper media) you could rename one of your printer copies to be  "CardStockA".  You then configure the printer's properties to be what you want for the type of paper you're printing on.  That way when you get ready to print a run of cards, envelopes or whatever,  you can select that printer and it's already configured for you even though it's the same printer.

I do this on my color laserjet when I don't want to use colored ink. I have a printer named "black and white" and it just prints in black and white regardless of what I send it.

[EdLas]

If I go to settings--printers&scanners then specify "remove" those non operating HP3330 printers, will that process remove the driver (which is possibly needed for the one that really works)? Thank you!