HP LaserJet 1100 not working with Windows 10 - dratt

[Maya_80]

Hello!

A while ago, I had an issue where my laptop was updated to Windows 10, and it meant my HP LaserJet 1100  stopped working.  After much searching, and hair pulling, I posted on here and eventually... resolved it!  Hurrah!

Or so you'd think... now the printer died, so I got a new one, same model though, assuming it would just work.  It didn't.  So I looked at my old solution, tried that... it uninstalled lots of apps to revert (it didn't do that last time...) and then without browsers, or Photoshop etc... it still didn't work.

So back to the searches, and tried about 7 different things, from HP site and Windows, nothing seems to work, says it's got the driver or whatever, but if you try and print, it says "error", printer makes no sounds as if it's starting up.  It's driving me crazy, no idea how to resolve it... it resolved previously, but what I did then, isn't the same now... but tried anyway (last time it didn't uninstall other apps, just the update of windows 10).

Any ideas, anyone?

Previous post:

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/LaserJet-Printing/HP-LaserJet-1100-suddenly-stopped-working/m-p/5815589...

[Maya_80]

Oh, and I've tried various things... like the one mentioned on this bit:

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/LaserJet-Printing/HP-Color-LaserJet-8550-and-Laserjet-1100-4000-support...

[Maya_80]

Still have the problem, couldn't find anything about it on various searches on the internet.  Tried to check for Windows 10, nothing specific about that which solves the problem.

As I was a bit stuck, I got a different wire to connect the printer to a pc (not by USB to laptop) - the PC is Windows 7, and after intitial connection it showed error messages. But the regular clicks sorted those out.  So now I have the printer in a Win 7 PC, but still doesn't work on the Win 10 laptop.  Very confusing.

Problem still exists, but I'm working around it.