HP 5940 drivers

50Twuncle

Does anybody have a problem with HP 5940 drivers on Win 7 64bit ?
My wifes new laptop won't load the driver for her printer and HP don't provide them as a download any more....
I have tried Windows update but that makes no difference

John_Gray

You could try the HP Universal Printer Driver series (say for PCL5), which occasionally works successfully if HP hasn't provided a 64-bit driver, or one for a 'new' operating system, for a specific printer...

50Twuncle

John_Gray wrote: »

You could try the HP Universal Printer Driver series (say for PCL5), which occasionally works successfully if HP hasn't provided a 64-bit driver, or one for a 'new' operating system, for a specific printer...

What about XP 64bit - is that comptible?

John_Gray

No, you want to go for the HP Universal Print Driver for Windows 64-bit PCL 5.

The XP 64-bit drivers were both rare, and rubbish if they existed, and Windows 7 is very different from XP.

If the Universal Printer Driver doesn't work, you could see if HP produced a Vista 64-bit driver for the HP 5940.

Or see if this Microsoft driver works (make sure you click on the 64-bit tab otherwise you'll get the 32-bit driver, which you don't want). (It seems to go to the HP website, but I gave up there!)

santer_2

Also this

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01796879&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN#N178

Some hardware have inbox drivers with Windows 7

http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/support-topics/windows-7-drivers/win7-driver-find.html

50Twuncle

John_Gray wrote: »

No, you want to go for the HP Universal Print Driver for Windows 64-bit PCL 5.

The XP 64-bit drivers were both rare, and rubbish if they existed, and Windows 7 is very different from XP.

If the Universal Printer Driver doesn't work, you could see if HP produced a Vista 64-bit driver for the HP 5940.

Or see if this Microsoft driver works (make sure you click on the 64-bit tab otherwise you'll get the 32-bit driver, which you don't want). (It seems to go to the HP website, but I gave up there!)

Thanks - I managed to get the driver from windows updates eventually - the problem being that every time I tried - it came up with an error - but this cleared and I downloaded the correct driver......

John_Gray

Are you saying that all your printing problems are now over?!

50Twuncle

John_Gray wrote: »

Are you saying that all your printing problems are now over?!

Yes thanks