List of HP printers no longer working In El Capitan 10.11

[FTFT]

HP LaserJet 400 MFP M425dn

HP Photosmart C5280

HP 2600 laser

HP Office Jet Pro 8600 Plus

HP - please fix!!!

[redeploy]

HP Photosmart Premium C309a

Prints but incomplete documents missing colored areas. Very pissed off about this. Had a similar problem with Canon who stopped producing Drivers for my old machine which worked perfectly otherwise. Now this. I swore off Canon after the last issue and if HP does not rectify this situation I will swear off them as well.

[midnightskulker]

i have a HP Officejet 8600 N911a

i recently installed El Capitan and have all the updates to date

I wanted to print but I get a warning triangle flag beside the name of printer because of low ink

when I try to print, the printer app starts up but then disapears within seconds, obviously a crash of some sort. 

i went to the Printer and checked the ink levels and printed it out no problems about 15 percent in black and lots more in the rest.

print from mobile cell no problem

quick fix

remove printer from system preferences

add printer  and choose it from standard if applicable

under the name are 3 options

Automatic

PCL-Printer

Software

choose PCL Printer

and add

[dajmac]

I would like to add the HP LaserJet 4L.

I think it is a disgrace that Apple no longer supports these old printers.  Quite ofter they are far more economical than the modern equivalents. In the time I had this machine I probably went through about 20000 sheets of paper and used only 3 toner cartridges - amazing!  This was a really good low cost, quality printer - sad to see it go.

The 4L worked happily for years (since 1995) on my old XP based DELL machine.  I then moved over to an iMac in 2012 and it continued to work (with a USB/Parallel conversion cable) until El Crapitan arrived.  It then refused to stay connected.  One print and then "offline".  This is the fault of Apple NOT HP.  They seem to want to continually upgrade to add irrelevant and unwanted functions at the same ensuring old technology gets binned.

I note there are a large number of these 4L's on eBay now.  And the remainder are probably filling landfill sites.

[debogrady]

I am having serious problems with my Designjet z3200. It will print but the printer driver thinks a sheet needs to be loaded before completing an image on sheet media. Margins are way off and if I adjust them to center the print, the margins are enlarged and the image inside is cropped, which doesn't make any logical sense at all since the image (24x30) includes a 1-1/2" margin all around. I've spent over 10 hours on the phone with HP support and we went through numerous scenarios, uninstallations, re-installations, restarts, etc. To no avail. I suspect the problem is in the printer itself, since now the issue has recurred on my old OS X 9.5. Anyone out there having similar issues?

[LandJ]

7520 photosmart no longer gives an option to print in color, different qualities  of printing such a fast draft or photo and there is not a preview option since updating to El Capitan 10.11.6

[LandJ]

7520 Hp Photosmart won't print color, diferent qualities like fast draft or photos

[dajmac]

All the above complaints simply confirm the fact that manufacturers have a built in obsolescence period.  The computing industry is absolutely full of it and no manufacturer is inocent.

Microsoft rolled out Win10, which lets be honest is no better than the previous versions, and in the process excluded people who used "old" machines (ie  older than 4 years).  I have a 64bit laptop that has Vista on it and it has been made redundant by this move. 

Apple rolled out El Crapitan.  It was no better than the previous versions, but it did make tons of periferals redundant.

HP of course is on the same bandwagon.

When is the industry going to realise that by forever fixing things that are not broken they are killing the planet.  Are they making products too robust so that they poutlive their software?  Just imagine if cars were made the same way!  You would be sending your four year old motor to the scrap yard because the operating system had been updated! 

It will happen - watch this space...........

I forgot to mention,  my perfectly good LazerJet 4L finally got recycled.  I couldn't waste anymore time trying to make it work.  I bought a Brother model to replace it - which does work.

[debogrady]

I can confirm that by going back to my older mac tower running OSX 9 the printer (designjet z3200) works fine. Whether the inability or unwillingness to make the printer driver work in El Capitan lies with HP or whether Apple just doesn't care about our using this printer - I can't say. The printer driver and operating system simply do not work. I'm glad I held on to the old machine and didn't upgrade my OS. I will run this printer until it falls apart! I think HP is about to delist it anyway and stop providing support (mechanical). Then I don't know what I will do.

[JKennedySJEDU]

I am unable to print to an HP Enterprise M553   It tells me that the printer might be low on toner.    The printer is fine, working for everyone else in the building expect . . . some of us Apple folks.  

I have an Mac Powerbook mid-2010 running 10.11.6 

An office-mate has the same problem, he is on a 2014 MacAir running 10.11.5

Our IT is . . . unable to solve the problem.

I was able to print until yesterday.  

Thanks,